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...Zimbabwe's problems today. Mugabe - a man who wears impeccable suits and drinks afternoon tea - is "half African and half British," says his biographer Heidi Holland, "and the two halves hate each other." In a Harare hotel, I meet Christopher Mutsvangwa, a ZANU supporter, businessman and former ambassador to China, whose clock seems to have stopped at independence in 1980. "Losing [Zimbabwe] was a very traumatic experience for British imperial pride," he says, "and they feel it needs to be reversed." Hyperinflation, he insists, was a British fabrication. "It wasn't generated by anything the government did. It was generated...
...succeed in Afghanistan and what success will look like in a country rife with corruption and lawlessness. The head of the British army, Sir Richard Dannatt, has said before that the country should be committed to Afghanistan for the "long haul." On Sunday, Sir Nigel Sheinwald, Britain's ambassador to Washington, put the time frame as "decades...
Caligiuri, a state senator, and Foley, the former ambassador to Ireland, call themselves outsiders. “I’m not a career politician,” Foley said, before touting 25 years of corporate experience. Meanwhile, Caligiuri cited his pledge to serve only two terms, unlike Dodd: “Dodd’s interest is in perpetuating his existence.” But why take a newbie instead of an old pro? Dodd, for example, is leading the debate over health care. “The fact that he’s in front of every issue...
...didn't lose every fight, but he was no longer winning them all either. And his backup vanished. Pentagon official Paul Wolfowitz moved to the World Bank in early 2005. Libby was indicted in October of that year and left the government. John Bolton resigned his post as U.S. ambassador to the U.N. the same month Rumsfeld left the Pentagon in 2006. Cheney's allies no longer manned the key points in the national-security flow chart. "Cheney," says an ally, "had to fight much harder...
...bombings, mass arrests and gunfights in Tajikistan over the past few months connected to militants fleeing the increased fighting in Afghanistan and Pakistan has caught the attention of the international community. "The European Union is highly concerned about the situation in Pakistan and its reflection on Tajikistan," said Ambassador Pierre Morel, the E.U.'s special representative in Central Asia, at a news conference in the Tajik capital Dushanbe on July 14. "We support the current politics of [Tajikistan] directed towards the eradication of armed terrorist groups and drug traffic to [the country...