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...limit carbon emissions, although the candidate himself seems not to fully understand that a hidden carbon tax is involved. McCain's opposition to disgraceful boondoggles like the farm bill, which Obama favored, is a real strength, as is his clarity about the economic advantages of free-trade agreements - a weak dollar makes exports the most promising area of economic growth. But for every proposal, there is a conflicting counterproposal: McCain wants alternative-energy research and development, but he would freeze nondiscretionary domestic spending, which would limit the government's puny alt-energy efforts. "He hasn't talked very much about...
...help its case by the manner in which it proceeded. Neither the parliament nor the coalition's junior partners were consulted. And in choosing to cede control of the ISI to Rehman Malik, the effective Minister of Interior, instead of tightening his own grip, Gilani was left looking weak...
...Sadr's dormant militia does decide to stir - should frustration over a lack of services, perceived discrimination or an American threat provoke them once more - the question remains of just how real the semblance of an Iraqi military grip on the city is. "The state is weak," says Abbas. "If Sayyid Muqtada al-Sadr wanted to call on the Mahdi Army to fight again, this city would collapse in a single...
...through Iraqi army checkpoints at the entrance to Baghdad's notorious and sprawling Sadr City slum, he talks about killing Sunnis. "We caught Takfiris [members of a fundamentalist Sunni Islamist sect] who were [working] with the Americans. We didn't want to kill them, but the government was too weak to do anything at the time. So we killed them all and put them in a big grave...
...cleric's militia and Sadrist political movement have been substantially weakened through military crackdowns on their strongholds in Sadr City and the southern cities of Amara and Basra over the past four months. "We don't think they will try to fight again, because they are too weak now," says an Interior Ministry official. "If they start, it will be their end." Says Ali Saadi, a medical professor in the Hay al-Banook district, where the Shi'ite militia has been popular and which lies adjacent to Sadr City: "The Mahdi Army was hit hard [by the military operation]. They...