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...WHAT DO YOU SEE AS THE MAIN BENEFITS AND COSTS OF THE CLOSE RELATIONSHIP WITH THE U.S.? I don't think there are any costs. There are differences, but our fundamental world view is the same. We're both democratic, open societies, we're both meritocracies...
...what war with itself might look like. After three days of violence, more than 200 people were killed, and Sunni groups claimed at least 100 mosques were damaged. The extent of the carnage left many with the uneasy sense that the long-simmering hostility between the country's two main sects has at last boiled over--and that the fragile, feckless institutions of authority in Iraq have no means of holding the anger back. "This was the worst-case scenario we all hoped would never happen," said a Western adviser to the Iraqi government. "We've always known that when...
According to a poll conducted earlier this month by the Mexican newspaper Reforma, Calderón is trailing closely behind former Mexico City Mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, his main opponent, by a seven percent margin...
...Arabs, some 15-20% of the population, provided the bulk of the governing class under Saddam, while the Shiites, who comprise upward of 60% of the population, were denied political rights and their religious freedoms were curtailed. The contemporary politics of the divide also has a regional dimension: The main Shiite religious political parties that have dominated both of Iraq's democratic elections have close ties to Iran, a fact that has irked not only Iraq's Sunnis but also the U.S.-allied regimes of the Arab world, who fear the consequences throughout the region of expanded Iranian influence...
...main novelty of this report, submitted by White House homeland security adviser Frances Fragos Townsend, is that it is hell-bent on looking forward. Yes, this happens to be politically convenient. No administration relishes pointing fingers at itself. But it is also a reasonable next step, given that hurricane season is just a few months away...