Word: pakistan
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Consider that during the first 25 years of the nuclear age, five countries tested nuclear weapons. In the 29 years since, two, India and Pakistan, have joined the list. Knowledge about how to build nuclear arms has spread, but far fewer nations than we once predicted are acting on that knowledge...
...Bush, the critical moment came last week when he flunked a pop quiz from a Boston television reporter by failing to name the leaders of countries like India and Pakistan. Bush argued in defense that the names are less relevant than his policies toward them. But the quiz was as much a test of his political radar as of his foreign-policy smarts: ever since he confused Slovenia and Slovakia and called the Greeks Grecians, he should have known it was only a matter of time before someone administered a midterm exam. And at other moments during the week, when...
...sounds out of his depth on some of the most serious policy issues a President must consider. Last week reporters pounced on the fact that he failed an interviewer's pop quiz by not knowing the leaders of three out of four world hot spots--Chechnya, India and Pakistan.* (He got right the leader of Taiwan, Lee Teng-hui.) But more troubling was the fact that when exposed to questions from real voters about, say, the impact of the Internet on rural America, Bush gets lost in verbiage, as if struggling to put meaning behind words...
They didn't happen fast enough to prevent Ali Asif Zardari from dumping millions of dollars into Citi accounts. The husband of Benazir Bhutto, a former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Zardari faced corruption allegations. In fact, the report says, Reed was advised by bank staff to "stay away from him." But a year later, Citi opened three accounts for him. According to the report, when Reed finally learned of the Zardari accounts, Reed "thought the account officer must have been 'an idiot...
...Number of foreign-policy questions George W. Bush flunked in a local TV interview. He was unable to name the leaders of India, Pakistan and Chechnya...