Word: weaknessness
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That apparent authority is in marked contrast to the weakness of Iraq's Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki. He traveled south to Basra with his security ministers to supervise the operation personally. After a few days of intense fighting he extended his previously announced deadline for surrender and offered militants...
That raises the prospect that even if the fighting does subside, the government's offensive will have accomplished little. Militants in Basra will have successfully defied the Iraqi Prime Minister's demand that they surrender, and his subsequent demand that they hand over their weapons. Rather than demonstrating the power...
Others worry about America's standing abroad. Though the U.S. abides by most treaty obligations, its reputation has been seriously damaged after eight years of high profile snubs by the Bush Administration - starting with the abrogation of the Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty, and peaking with Bush's war on terror...
Chrysantus Ayangafac, a Pretoria-based researcher from the International Institute of Strategic Studies, argued in a paper this month that even such a limited military intervention "will have high diplomatic, human and financial cost implications for the AU, which it can ill afford. Besides, any sustained military intervention in the...
Five years ago President Bush invaded Iraq, one thing that representatives from the Harvard College Democrats and the Harvard Republican Club can agree on—anything else is up for debate. In a debate last night on the direction of the Iraq War, democratic representatives, Sahand Moarefy â?...