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...long-term interest to defuse Islamic anger. Instead, it has shown moral cowardice on the Israel-Palestine issue, refusing even to admit that an unbalanced American policy will hurt European interests more than American interests. No major European leader has the moral courage to speak truth to power on this issue. (Read: "Halal Burgers? Another French Brouhaha over Islam...
Over the long run, geography - when combined with economic shifts of power - determines destiny. America's interests in Asia are rising while its interests in Europe are declining. A growing Hispanic population will make Latin America more important. This is why the time has come for Europeans to think the unthinkable: the "natural" transatlantic partnership may someday come...
...watching Russell Crowe during 2000's Gladiator premiere. "I watched him go through several of his Australian beers on the carpet," Pratt recalls. "The media were all around him, it was just a different kind of media. They let people get away with more because the celebrities had more power. Now some paparazzo who has to pay his rent doesn't care what Russell Crowe or his agent thinks of him. He's taking that picture and selling it." And today, media outlets would...
...recent demonstrations topple the government, Novodvorskaya says, most likely the communists or some other authoritarian force will seize power. Such parties are best placed, she says, to promise handouts and paternalism, the things people want at a time of financial crisis. "We've played that bloody game with the Bolsheviks before, and the motives behind these protests are again material. These people don't want to hear about free-market capitalism and European integration. These are foreign notions here, and they will support anyone still capable of throwing them a bone. Don't be confused. The government still has bones...
...final composition of the government will nominally affect the future direction of the Iraqi state - whether it becomes more centralized in the hands of the Baghdad government, or whether power is devolved to the regions, especially the Shi'ite-dominated south and the Kurdish north. But either direction could destabilize the country. Devolution could spark a civil war between Arabs and Kurds, while further centralization in a country with a history of totalitarianism could put Iraq on a slippery slope to a new kind of dictatorship...