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...need each other now. Bush is still a potent fund raiser, pulling in $67 million to the Republican National Committee in 2007 at events like his frequent luncheons and dinners around town. By the same token, if anyone is going to protect the legacy of Bush's war on terror and Iraq, it is the senior Senator from Arizona...
...that, on a website that serves as a central information source for our era, one of history’s greatest villains is reduced to a spectral figure of fear while one of its greatest tragedies becomes a dispassionate statement of fact. The encyclopedia drains the entries of their terror and, indeed, of their very life, reducing them to little more than a hazy nightmare in our morning-after memory. But that doesn’t mean their terror is irrelevant: as Roberto Bolaño reminds us in “Nazi Literature in the Americas...
...Prince's frontline deployment had been kept under wraps by British and international media outlets at the request of Britain's Ministry of Defence. Harry was due to deploy to Iraq last year, but his posting was canceled amid concerns that he would be a prime target for terror attacks. One U.S. Pentagon official told TIME he thought that, by organizing the news blackout, Britain was missing an opportunity to build some support for the war in Afghanistan across Europe. "When you are trying to build popular support, it is nice to know that your country's leaders...
...over Pakistan. The central government's inability to control al-Qaeda in its northwestern tribal territories, and concerns over Islamabad's nuclear arsenal, make handling relations with the country a particularly tricky problem. Hence the tumult over Barack Obama's fairly mainstream assertion that he would strike "high-value" terror targets in Pakistan if the leadership there could not. The confusion over when and whether to intervene across sovereign borders shows how little light has been shed on America's policy for responding to weak-state threats during the campaign...
...responsible for political manipulation in Pakistan’s 2002 elections that led to Islamists coming to power in two provinces and gaining 59 seats in the National Assembly. This fraud was the work of the America’s supposedly unfaltering ally in the War on Terror, General (ret.) Pervez Musharraf and his desire to paint an image of Pakistan as an extremely dangerous, unstable country ready to fall into the hands of extremists the moment he leaves. Musharraf pretends that he is the only hope for the US in Pakistan. Closer analysis, however, suggests that his claims...