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...Musharraf gave a speech against "wicked, bigoted" religious extremism, saying it could lead "to our own internal destruction." But even if he had his own reasons, once India demanded a crackdown, it became politically dicey for Musharraf to pull it off. "The shriller the Indians, the more difficult it is for Pakistan," notes a Western diplomat in Islamabad. Still, Musharraf's crackdown against the militants has at least impressed Washington. "It's real, and it's going to continue," says a senior State Department official...
...Musharraf gave a speech against "wicked, bigoted" religious extremism, saying it could lead "to our own internal destruction." But even if he had his own reasons, once India demanded a crackdown, it became politically dicey for Musharraf to pull it off. "The shriller the Indians, the more difficult it is for Pakistan," notes a Western diplomat in Islamabad. Still, Musharraf's crackdown against the militants has at least impressed Washington. "It's real, and it's going to continue," says a senior State Department official...
...Chinese duel that will dominate 21st century diplomacy as did the Soviet-American contest in the 20th. For the past decade or so, Beijing has been telling Washington: "The Western Pacific is our lake, move over." Not in so many words, of course, but the signal has become shriller after the collision in the South China...
...become as predictable as the school shootings that set them off. Democrats call for more gun-control legislation; Republicans rage against the Clinton Administration's allegedly poor enforcement of existing laws. Both sides accuse the other of trying to score political points. With each new round, the voices get shriller. Nothing gets done...
...usually left-leaning New York Times seconded that emotion in its editorial "The Abuse of Privilege, Again," which accuses Clinton of selfishly putting his presidency before the presidency. (William Safire had opened the week on an even shriller anti-executive-privilege note, declaring in Monday's Times that "if Clinton can get away with this, any future President would be able to get away with anything...