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...arms ever since Sarkozy, the leader of a country historically hostile to Jews and currently critical of the Jewish state, demanded that their leader, the intrepid Benjamin Netanyahu, fire their Foreign Minister, the highly controversial Avigdor Leiberman. They have a point. After all, who is France to tell them—or, for that matter, anyone—what to do? For a president of one democracy to meddle in the internal affairs of another reeks of arrogance, especially—I’m sorry to say—French arrogance, the same sort of self-proclaimed moral superiority...
...Born to Run Her departure was a distillate of all things Palin. It packed the same gob-smacking wallop as her arrival on the GOP ticket. Sunlit against an Alaskan waterfront, it was as telegenic as her boffo acceptance speech. Rambling along in Palinesque fashion, she didn't quite tell us where she's headed, but she left no doubt that she remains in a hurry to get there...
...possible way out, diplomats close to the Honduran talks tell TIME, is to move up the nation's November presidential election and January inauguration. Zelaya could return to power, but only on the condition that he not try to alter the constitution, especially its ban on presidential re-election. The Honduran crisis was sparked when Zelaya made noises about giving presidents a second term - a sign to many Hondurans that he wanted to take them down the path of his left-wing allies, like Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, who recently won a referendum that allows indefinite re-election...
...TIME: Tell me how the operation in Helmand is going. General McChrystal: It's too early to predict success. They just started. (See pictures of the U.S. Marines' new offensive in Afghanistan...
...delivered a firm directive to your commanders in a morning brief. There had been an incident in which civilians were killed when soldiers ordered a strike on a compound from which they were receiving fire. In the brief you ordered your commanders to "stop dropping compounds." Can you tell me more about this? What we have done is written a tactical directive. And it provides my intent on how we are going to execute operations in general [to be released soon]. But specifically, the use of deadly force. The reason I spent a lot of time personally writing that intent...