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...Africa have been extraordinary. In Vice President-elect Joe Biden’s own words, “The president’s Emergency Action Program for HIV/AIDS has saved more than a million lives. It may be the greatest legacy this president leaves.” The incredible progress that has been achieved in Iraq and Afghanistan is evident in the lives that their citizens now live as peace and freedom take root. While there was a worldwide intelligence failure and there were postwar planning and strategic mistakes under Secretary Rumsfeld in Iraq, the strategy was adjusted...
...nothing to do with Barack Obama being the first black man elected President of the United States. His blackness is inspiring, but his meteoric rise to power has been an experience fairly different from that of a typical African-American leader. As an icon of African-American progress, Obama’s story is anomalous—he had a white mother and was raised by his white grandparents; he is not descended from slaves, but rather from a Harvard-educated Kenyan...
...Sarkozy may have a short window for making progress. "Nicolas Sarkozy uses his energy and good faith to change the world - and that has had its chance as an alternative to the universally rejected Bush doctrine," wrote editorialist Yves Thréard in the French daily Le Figaro on Friday. "But Obama taking command will alter that equation, and risks crowding [Sarkozy...
...export-led economies from a slowdown in the West. Indeed, Asian governance is failing in democracy's most basic undertaking: to represent the will of the people. Back when the region was poor and ravaged by war, Asia's citizens made an unspoken pact with their leaders, that economic progress could predate political reform. But, today, most Asians are fed and clothed, and a middle class flourishes. Where, then, is the accountability, transparency and justice Asians crave? Here are four areas in which the continent's democratic experiment is underperforming - and what Asia can do about...
...square feet of Mogadishu) looked like the last straw. "President Abdullahi Yusuf has marginalized large parts of the population and exacerbated divisions," think tank International Crisis Group wrote in a recent report. "The latest confrontation with parliament and the Prime Minister has underlined that Yusuf hampers any progress on peace, has become a liability for the country's survival and should be encouraged to resign...