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...home and abroad for helping trigger the crisis in May: In what was later described as an "e-coup," the military had published a message on its website denouncing Gul's candidacy. The nomination of a candidate other than Gul would allow the generals a face-saving line of retreat. But if that does not happen, last month's victory at the ballot box for the AKP leaves the army facing a stark choice between its version of secularism and respect for Turkish democracy...
...mutation of the G.O.P. into a party of big government, the spectacular failure of Bush's effort to "reform" Social Security through partial privatization - have all weighed heavily on the G.O.P., turning it for the first time since Ronald Reagan took office in 1981 into a party in retreat. In the 2006 mid-terms, Rove assured nervous Republicans that they could win again if they maligned their Democratic opponents as soft-headed and weak on terror. And they heeded his advice. But the old strategy didn't work; Democrats swept to power in both houses of Congress. Rove insists...
...There’s a downside to this surfeit of temerity, however. When minority groups have their religious and cultural identities sidelined by policies geared at preserving laïcité, the result can be paradoxical; a retreat into the very ethnic and religious communities that French politicians so fear. Defenders of the headscarf ban are quick to point to private parochial schools as alternatives for those pupils who are unable to comply for religious reasons. But marginalizing into separate schools the very individuals to whom the Republic ought to reach out the most might not be such a good...
...keep himself centered and at peace through all these transits. "I look out the window of the plane," he said. "Up there I don't have to do anything. I watch the clouds, the blue sky behind. Really, a plane can be a beautiful way of taking a retreat...
...Slowly backing out of Iraq is hardly inspiring and won't be likely to satisfy either the President or his opponents. It may look just as messy as what the U.S. is doing now. But a responsible retreat would limit U.S. casualties and move America out of a debilitating chapter that has now played out politically at home, if not militarily on the ground. In a world of bad options, a phased withdrawal is the least bad one out there...