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...popular theory argues that the care and feeding of the right is a way to build cover for a progressive agenda. That may be true. Obama has enunciated some liberal foreign and domestic policy ideas, such as open-ended high-level talks with Iran, a rapid combat troop pull-out from Iraq and a possibly trillion dollar stimulus plan for the flagging economy: if he plans to roll them out soon, he might hope that one or two of his putative "advisers" will support him, or at least hold off on their attacks, because of his outreach...
...wrong in that country. These problems will not be fixed before we are due to depart in 2011. Or maybe ever by any outsider. The military commander in Iraq, General Ray Odierno, recently said that U.S. forces may have to stay in Iraqi cities beyond the June 2009 agreed pull-out date. I can see Odierno's point: he doesn't want to be the one who leaves behind the mess. But the reality is he will be long retired and in the grave by the time Iraq is completely fixed...
...violence-torn Mexican city is a warning of impending tragedy. The first responders on call on this particular night had already seen plenty of action: a man with a bullet embedded in his skull; a beaten corpse dumped on a street corner; a blood-soaked drunk who tried to pull a policeman's gun from his holster. But the worst had been waiting until last. Someone was calling in from the middle of a firefight raging in a rough neighborhood on the outskirts of town. Several men had been shot, said the hysterical caller, and were bleeding to death...
...toddlers insist, "That's not fair!"--the sense of tradition seems innate, as if we are born knowing that sacraments tie us together and make us whole. They are a part of a moral diet that we need to attend to, especially now when so many forces conspire to pull us farther apart. How many things this precious cost this little...
...idealists fighting for a better life. The specter of the current student movement turning violent in frustration - and being joined by other people frightened about their own future as recession closes in - is what Reynié and many other experts think was behind the government's decision to momentarily pull its education reform back...