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...credibility he has built on being a man of action. That means the highest-stakes showdown of his administration is all but inevitable. "If he achieves this reform by overcoming big protests, he'll have satisfied the 50% of public opinion approving the measure, thrill fellow conservatives, and re-establish himself as the formidable leader who inspires the French," says Reynié. "If he fails, he's in serious trouble. The reform movement will be stalled; the left revived, conservative rivals will be emboldened to challenge him, and public respect for him blown apart. But there's no going back...
French presiden Nicolas Sarkozy has made it clear he's determined to re-establish France as both a force in international affairs and a valued friend of the U.S. Inevitably, those objectives will sometimes be in conflict. In his first major address on foreign policy, for example, Sarkozy rejected the notion that Iran should be allowed to develop a nuclear bomb, but he also denounced the strategy, favored by some Washington hawks, of launching preventive strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities. Instead, he urged renewing efforts to negotiate Tehran's renunciation of its nuclear program as "the only one that allows...
...TIME: So, you too are a partisan. Do you have any sympathy for the argument made by Christian activists that our culture and courts favor non-belief, and that Christians need redress to re-establish a level playing field...
...with the military already scrambling to send reinforcements to Baghdad, it's unlikely that the U.S. will ever have the forces it needs to fully pacify places like Diyala. Even if U.S. troops manage to re-establish a measure of normality in the city, simply pushing out the insurgents won't solve the deep-seated disputes that have sent the province, like so much of Iraq, hurtling into civil war. A functioning local government for the valley must re-emerge, with support from Baghdad, if the area hopes to break free of the militants who hold sway in its absence...
...President. You can free us from this disaster. We are at your service, and we support you." That the tribesmen would turn to one of Musharraf's rivals for help against the Taliban is a telling indictment of his leadership. And if Musharraf doesn't find a way to re-establish control over Talibanistan, he may find his backers in Washington giving...