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...direct Confrontation as the only way to bring about political reform in China? Not at all. I never ask people to be like me. For democracy to really take hold, it has to become ordinary-like bread or water or air. The actions of people like me, while necessary, may not be as important as, say, the person who recently decided to use voting booths in a village election so villagers could cast their ballots without officials watching them...
...What do you plan to do now that you're free? I want to adjust my relationship with my family. Now I'm getting old, and I want to put my wife and daughter first. Of course, I won't stop my calls for political reform in China, but I don't plan to go to jail again...
...there a chance that Rushing’s reform-minded platform has finally caused Finneran to change his stripes? He and his crack team of sycophantic representatives would have us believe so. In a speech to the House that had just voted him in overwhelmingly, Finneran uncharacteristically claimed that he intended to foster transparency and debate in state government, promising that he would “actively work to eliminate” the impression that he has stifled more liberal viewpoints and noting that “it is not only important to hear, but to listen...
...series of speeches since Sept. 11, 2001, the President has shaped a "Bush doctrine" that commits the U.S. to do everything it can--including unilateral, pre-emptive military action--to eradicate international terrorism, reform the nations that support it and neutralize rogue states that seek to possess weapons of mass destruction. Much commentary on the Bush doctrine has stressed its toughness--the way, for example, that the Administration claims the right to take military action on its own, without U.N. sanction. All of this is said to be of a piece with the Administration's supposed arrogance in international affairs...
...democracy in the region seems to have been a long time coming, and so far has had little heft behind it. In December, Secretary of State Colin Powell gave an important speech, in which he said the U.S. must give "sustained and energetic attention to economic, political and educational reform" in the Middle East. Powell then announced a new U.S.--Middle East Partnership Initiative to span the "hope gap" with "energy, ideas and funding." There will be rather more of the first two than the last, since the program currently has only $29 million to spend. (To be fair...