Word: establishmentism
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Despite the fact that popular perceptions of the conflict were at variance with the government's policy of limited and quiet assistance to the U.S forces, the agreement between the monarchy and the puritanical Wahabi religious establishment appears to have held fast.
More than 200 complaints have already been filed with the tribunal—whose jurisdiction is limited to 89 signatory nations—but neither Iraq nor the United States are accountable to the ICC because they have not ratified its establishment.
Well, does it? Earlier this year, a senior Administration official said that reviving the peace process between Israelis and Palestinians would be "front and center" once Iraq was settled. When that happened, he said, the Administration would have to make some "tough choices," which presumably meant that it would apply...
The apocalypse, the day of reckoning, the final catastrophe that will end the world as we know it is drawing nearer everyday. What else can explain the eerie marriage between largely Democratic pro-Israel groups and the conservative Christian establishment?
Besides a spoiled ideology, there is a large practical danger of divergent interests becoming entrenched early in a new Iraq. While the State Department is on record calling for debt forgiveness to the new government, for instance, Russia will surely want some of the $8 billion owed to it by...