Word: wouldn
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...When you hear news from Afghanistan or Iraq, does it sadden you? Oh yes, it does sadden me a great deal. It's a "Here we go again" sort of thing, after we thought it would all be finished, and there wouldn't be any more war and our boys wouldn't have to leave home and get killed and leave sad families behind. I never dreamt that it would be occurring again in such a short time...
...looking obstructionist, Republicans are quick to point out that the bulk of the bill - the exchange, which will help small businesses and the 47 million people who are uninsured buy affordable insurance, along with subsidies to help those who can't afford it and new regulations of insurers' practices - wouldn't go into effect until 2013 (this is partly because of the complexity of setting up such a monumental enterprise and partly to help lessen the 10-year cost of the bill). Republicans daydream that Dems could be seen as passing a giant, expensive boondoggle with nothing to show...
...when he first came to the palace, he needed foreign bodyguards because he couldn't find 30 Afghans that he trusted." Abdullah also says Karzai's popularity has sunk so low after the allegations of massive fraud that if international forces were to leave Afghanistan tomorrow, "Why, Karzai wouldn't last eight minutes in his palace...
...most accounts, Juanes scored a success. Critics accused him of helping legitimize the Castros; they argued that the brothers wouldn't have let the king of the Latin Grammys take over the same square beneath the massive visage of Che Guevara if they thought he was a threat to their rule. In the short run, at least, the Castros won p.r. points at home and abroad by letting Juanes and other Latin luminaries perform...
Obama, however, seems less than impressed with such arguments. Sunday morning, in an interview with the Spanish-language television network Univisión, he said that while he didn't think events like the Juanes concert hurt U.S.-Cuba relations, "I wouldn't overstate the degree that it helps." If that indifference seems to contradict the spirit of U.S.-Cuba engagement that Obama expressed in his presidential campaign and at the Summit of the Americas earlier this year, it may be because he's found that conservatives can still give him headaches over Cuba and the Latin-American left. Republicans...