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...foreign aid, but frustrated that donors regularly cough up so much less than promised that the country's development can't really take off. "We live like beggars," he says. It's widely agreed that Afghanistan's national army and police, despite some improvements, are far too small and weak to take on powerful narco-traffickers, local warlords and increasingly audacious[an error occurred while processing this directive] Taliban forces; nevertheless, Rocketi despairs at Karzai's recent proposal to recruit tribal militias to become a sort of police auxiliary, which he figures will just encourage them to greater lawlessness...
...planning, training for, and conducting major terrorist attacks in this region, such as the bombings of U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. The volatility of this region is fueled by a daunting list of challenges, to include extreme poverty, corruption, internal conflicts, border disputes, uncontrolled borders and territorial waters, weak internal security capabilities, natural disasters, famine, lack of dependable water sources, and an underdeveloped infrastructure. The combination of these serious challenges creates an environment that is ripe for exploitation by extremists and criminal organizations...
...disgusted by the British government's weak response to Israel's disproportionate bully-boy attacks on Lebanon. While hundreds of innocent Lebanese are being slaughtered, Tony Blair wrings his hands and utters a few platitudes to the dead and dying. And the U.S., with its blatant support of Israeli aggression, has relinquished any hope of being an honest broker between the Jewish state and the Arab world. There can be no peace in the Middle East until Palestinians have justice. What Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has done will make neither Israel nor the rest of the world more secure...
...point. The natural tensions of a federal system have been exacerbated by an Administration that distrusts government even more than the average voter does. President Bush did not want to establish DHS to begin with. When he was pressured to do it anyway, he created a department weak in leadership, autonomy and funding...
...South Carolina plant, he is more than familiar with the U.S. market, and he has plans to increase share there. The challenge for BMW will be not only to make cars that are fun to drive but also to increase fuel efficiency, one of the automaker's few weak spots...