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Many conservative evangelicals loved the bellicose rhetoric, but moderates were offended, and national news media responded with increased scrutiny of the campaign's religious politics. Bush immediately compounded matters by speaking to a national meeting of conservative religious leaders that included Robertson, Buchanan, Phyllis Schlafly, and Jerry Falwell. There Bush...
But diplomatic pressure has been embraced only reluctantly, if at all, by Bush and Cheney. Even when the President does get behind an initiative, as he did with the recent Annapolis conference to restart the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, there is an ad hoc, unprepared quality to the effort - a...
The last two decades have not given the people of Afghanistan much to smile about. Since being invaded by the crumbling Soviet Union in the 1980s, the nation has seen the collapse of a puppet communist government, the ravaging of its lands by militant groups called mujahideen, and the rise...
The rally deaths will complicate the task of Arab moderates, such as Saudi Arabia, who are trying to reunite the two warring Palestinian factions. Hamas opposes Abbas's plans to attend a U.S.-sponsored Israeli-Arab summit in Annapolis, Maryland, later this month. Ahmed Qurie, chief Palestinian negotiator with the...
Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry was the catalyst for the current crisis in Pakistan. The feisty and independent head of Pakistan's Supreme Court was suspended by Musharraf in March 2007 for alleged misconduct. The move against the judge backfired as Pakistan's lawyers and middle class moderates, many of whom...