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...revise Japan's pacifist constitution, and may move to do so this year. Normally, such a change would threaten to destabilize a region long wary of any resurgence of Japanese militarism. But Abe has worked hard to improve relations with his neighbors-a fact reflected in their muted reaction. While Pyongyang, predictably, took Tokyo to task for "converting the Japanese islands into a 'war state,'" the Chinese Foreign Ministry merely expressed hope that the change would not derail Japan's "peaceful development." "It's significant that China didn't really criticize it," says Hisahiko Okazaki, a foreign-policy adviser...
...original condition, like the taxidermy eland that hangs behind the cash register at John Derian Co., an East Village boutique devoted to sea sponges, shells and other stylish scavengings. Other items have been given a contemporary twist, like botanical patterns reproduced in assertive contemporary colors. "It may be a reaction against clean white modernism," says Marco Pasanella, a New York City?based interior designer, "but it's also about enjoying the richness and elegance and just plain beauty of these objects...
...tempting to read Borat's unmolested season on Lebanese screens as a sign of progress of the post-Syrian era towards a more tolerant, liberal society. But it could just as likely be the high water mark in a Weimar-like interregnum before the forces of reaction and intolerance reassert themselves. Outside of the theaters, Lebanese society is in the midst of a sense of humor failure. When a Lebanese television comedy show poked fun at Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah last year, his followers rioted, cutting off the road from Beirut airport. And with Hizballah firmly ensconced in central Beirut...
Almost four years since the invasion of Iraq, many Iraqis now call for a return to the days of the former Iraqi tyrant, Saddam Hussein. Given the bloodbath that has ensued since the invasion and the sectarian violence that has taken hold in the region, this reaction comes as no surprise. Just before his defenestration, former Secretary of Defense Donald R. Rumsfeld commented in a recently leaked memo that his current plan of action for Iraq cannot hope to stabilize the region. Another leak revealed a second memo written by Stephen J. Hadley, Bush’s national security advisor...
...nail in the coffin of Arab nationalism, a secular ideology of pan-Arab unity and independence. Originating with the Arab Revolt against Ottoman domination of the Middle East nearly a century ago, the ideology took on a militant edge following Arab independence after World War II. Partly as a reaction to Israel's defeat of the Arabs in the 1948 war, Arab nationalism promoted militaristic societies led by warrior leaders who espoused dreams of victory and grandeur. The tragic result has been decades of tyranny, conflict and stagnation for millions of Arabs rather than the blossoming of an Arab renaissance...