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...true nature of America's racial dilemma than many are comfortable admitting. Yes, blacks are citizens. But look what it took to achieve that status and maintain it: a civil war followed by an endless procession of lawsuits, legal initiatives, commissions and efforts at social engineering, all designed to prop up blacks' civil and social rights...
...commanders on the ground, is bringing the insurgency under control. Just as the Coalition forces are hoping that the new government puts an Iraqi face on security operations, so will the new government be relying on those forces, principally the U.S., to be the most important prop of its own security strategy. But how the sovereign government and the U.S. forces that operate on its turf are to coordinate decisions on security matters has, for the most part, yet to be worked out. As much as it depends on U.S. security backing, the government's credibility in the eyes...
Even by the buttoned-up standards of central bankers, Alan Greenspan is not an effusive man. But one economic phenomenon has driven the U.S. Federal Reserve Board Chairman to reach for the superlatives: in March, he marveled at the "extraordinary" efforts of China and Japan to prop up the dollar by pumping money into U.S. bonds. Japan's accumulation of U.S. securities, he declared, was "awesome." Indeed, in the first three months of this year, China and Hong Kong bought $167 billion of American securities (primarily U.S. treasuries and corporate bonds), while Japan bought $336 billion worth, according...
...appears, irrevocably. Rather than continue an imperfect but effective policy--begun by his father and continued by Bill Clinton--of containing Iraqis with sanctions, a no-fly zone and the occasional clocker to the head, Bush simply decided that containment wasn't working anymore. The Administration spent millions to prop up a dubious group of Iraqi exiles led by Ahmad Chalabi--former Central Command boss Anthony Zinni has called them "the Gucci guerrillas from London"--who helped generate the secret "intelligence" needed to create a rationale for pre-emptive war. Much of the intelligence turned out to be flawed...
...When the bridges came down, the prices of goods in Batumi skyrocketed and Ajarians saw their livelihoods threatened. Government officials began resigning en masse, the police and army went over to Saakashvili's side, and Abashidze lost what little popular support he had. The Kremlin made no move to prop him up because Saakashvili had won the respect of Russian President Vladimir Putin by successfully balancing Russian and U.S. interests in the region. Arriving in Batumi to a hero's welcome early Thursday morning, Saakashvili thanked the Ajarians for their "unprecedented heroism and dignity." In Tbilisi, Nino Burjanadze, Speaker...