Word: strangleholds
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...Even if the Moscow standoff is resolved without serious casualties, it's unlikely to be the last such attack by a separatist movement increasingly desperate to break Russia's stranglehold on its home turf. But Moscow is unlikely to be forced back to negotiating by terror attacks. The standoff is more likely to amplify Russia's demand for a green light from the West to act against NATO-friendly Georgia, where many Chechen fighters continue to find sanctuary...
Democracy, even in diluted form, can shock, undo and turn over the?established order, as it did in both Pakistan and Kashmir last week. For President Pervez Musharraf, the election was intended to fulfill his promise to end one man rule?while ensuring he retained his own stranglehold on power. Early returns, however, indicated a fundamentalist coalition, the Mutahidda Majlis-e-Amal (MMA), was the unintended beneficiary of Musharraf's banning of past political powerhouses Benazir Bhutto and Mian Mohammed Nawaz Sharif from standing for office. The startling result calls into question Musharraf's grip on power and his ability...
...surprisingly, the man trying to knock down the barrier is Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian, whose Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) broke the KMT's longstanding stranglehold on power in March 2000 elections. Chen last month made good on an election promise when his cabinet introduced legislation barring political parties from investing in profit-making enterprises. The bills, if passed by Taiwan's parliament, would also give the government the go-ahead to open the KMT's books and seize assets deemed to have been obtained illegally...
...only two people stand to benefit—Saddam Hussein and Ariel Sharon. Saddam needs allies, and bringing Israel into the fight would wrest Arab states from the U.S. coalition. Meanwhile, Sharon will welcome a wider Arab-Israeli war, for it would give him an excuse to increase his stranglehold on the Palestinian territories, and quite possibly, to expel thousands of Palestinians from the West Bank. Israel must not play into the hands of these two war criminals...
Although the trauma of last Sept. 11 has faded into the background, Bush has not loosened his stranglehold on public discourse. With his sights set on Saddam, he would prefer not to deal with pesky questions about double standards or the murky precedent that a U.S. invasion of Iraq would set. Stifling dissent may be harder now than it was some months ago, when challenges to patriotism could gag even the biggest mouths. But then again, Iraq is much closer to Bush’s heart...