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...last thing Obama ought to do is pick a figure from the Washington establishment. He needs, instead, to reinforce his message of change and shake up the status quo with an outsider untainted by the Capitol games. Such a pick would be aimed not at the party's base but at the pool of independent voters who still aren't comfortable with Obama and are looking all summer for signs that he is both something different and up to the job. Those who back this approach have been talking about Kaine for months in this context, as well as former...
...Aubrey Matshiqi of the Johannesburg-based Center for Policy Studies said Zanu-PF was using the talks to buy time, for two reasons: to renew its rural support base inside Zimbabwe, which has been eroded by the MDC, and to manage the succession of 84-year-old Mugabe. "Zanu needs this process of negotiation for its own reasons," said Matshiqi...
...Pakistani Prime Minister was in Washington Monday promising not to allow Pakistan to become al-Qaeda's new rear base. As everyone knows, it's too late for that - bin Laden and almost every other important terrorist we're after are comfortably holed up there. For the last seven years Bush has begged, cajoled, threatened, and bribed the Pakistanis to do something about al-Qaeda. But nothing has worked...
...Still, political Islam never really went away. The AKP is the latest in a long line of faith-based parties banned by the courts, only to reemerge in a new guise on the back of a solid base of popular support. Unlike its predecessors, the AKP has steered clear of inflammatory Islamist rhetoric, pursued aggressively liberal economic policies and advocated for Turkey's joining the European Union...
...bombing may have been retaliation for a military crackdown on rebel positions in the southeast and the mountains of North Iraq, which are being pounded by Turkish fighter jets. On Tuesday, the Turkish military said it had bombed a hideout in Iraq's Qandil mountains, destroying the base and up to 40 PKK militants inside...