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...election campaign had raised hopes that Iraqis were ready to move beyond the chaos and violence that had plagued their country since the ouster of Saddam Hussein. The major political blocs appeared to have recognized that no single ethnic group or sect could govern peacefully and effectively without making alliances across traditional fault lines. The big parties put forward diverse coalitions preaching national unity, even if each retained a core identity well known to voters: Maliki's State of Law coalition ran on a law-and-order platform but drew primarily from a moderate Shi'ite base; Allawi's Iraqiya...
...housing project with gas tanker trucks. The government called on the military to restore order, and troops cleared the streets without bloodshed. Conversely, anti-Thaksin demonstrators, called the yellow shirts, invaded and occupied government offices and Bangkok International Airport, shutting it down, in late 2008 to help force the ouster of a government loyal to Thaksin...
...wrong, however, to lay the blame for this squarely on the doorstep of President Obama and calling for an end to the Democratic Congressional majority in 2010 and the ouster of the president in 2012. This would be no solution to our country’s problems...
...responsibility of the commanding officer for his or her command is absolute," Admiral John Harvey, chief of the U.S. Fleet Forces Command, said after the ouster of one of those two skippers on whose vessel fraternization was rampant (fraternization is a too-familiar relationship, often involving sex, between personnel of differing ranks). "It is our tradition that with responsibility goes authority, and with them both goes accountability," Harvey said in a public statement accompanying the punishment. Military officers talk like this all the time, but in recent years their actions have tended not to match their language.(See the world...
...past week that it will exercise extraordinary military and judicial powers against opposition leaders, dissidents, street protesters and even sympathizers to end the growing turmoil. The regime's most urgent goal is to prevent opposition activists from turning next month's 11-day celebration marking the Shah's ouster in 1979 into a counterrevolution against his successors...