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...troops are standing in the middle of a religious shooting war. Civil wars are notoriously difficult to mediate without taking one side, and it doesn't help that in Iraq, battling Shi'ites and Sunnis seem to agree on only one thing: that the U.S. is ultimately to blame for the mess. Khalilzad is pleading with Shi'ites and Sunnis to return to talks on forming a new government. Still, it could be weeks, even months, before a workable new government is in place in Baghdad. That would be bad news for Washington, which desperately wants a quick political solution...
...have proved an effective dean. It could be argued, however, that that Kirby never wanted this job. In fact, when I ran into him in University Hall shortly after he announced his resignation, Kirby appeared relaxed, as if a great weight had been taken off his shoulders. Who could blame...
...that introduces us to the third party that needs to shoulder some of the blame in this case—the administration and, more broadly, the program itself...
...latest brouhaha further embarrassed the Serbian government, which accused the opposition of launching the misinformation campaign, thus undermining their honest efforts to catch the general. But the opposition, and some Western observers, blame the government. "They raised this noise to hide the fact that they are not truly hunting Mladic", a Belgrade-based Western diplomat told Time. "So far, we are not impressed by their efforts...
...Though it takes pains not to cast blame, the report does suggest shifting a number of functions currently handled by the Department of Homeland Security (or its now notorious division, FEMA) to other branches of the federal government. Those include having the Department of Justice take over sole responsibility for handling law enforcement immediately after a disaster, giving Health and Human Services the job of overseeing the distribution of emergency aid to victims as well as a network of medical response teams, and bringing Housing and Urban Development on board to manage temporary housing - which should not, the report stresses...