America\'s ongoing nightmare: Electing the next CI
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America's ongoing nightmare: Electing the next CINC
Editorial
By Ben Tanosborn
Monday, 19 May 2008
Will Obama be forced to wear a flag-pin?
This past week saw "never-give-up" Hillary establish mileposts in her own Oregon Trail, this time without covered wagons or the many difficulties of an overland migration route. However, to some members of the Democratic Party her campaign appeared to arrive here not to settle but, disturbingly, to unsettle things.
Free speech is not without consequence. In the United States, for example, criticism of Israel is tantamount to heresy. Former US President Jimmy Carter felt a societal backlash last year after the release of his book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, which condemned Israel’s apartheid-style policies in the occupied Palestinian territories. Consequently, and without foundation, Carter was branded by many in the American press as a one-sided, anti-Semitic propagandist. Similarly, Harvard professor Stephen Walt and University of Chicago professor John Mearsheimer were lambasted for a paper the two co-authored that discussed the power of the Israel lobby and its adverse effect on American policy.
On his recent trip to Israel, President Bush ignited a political firestorm within the Obama, Clinton, and McCain camps by suggesting that it would be wrong to “appease” the Ahmadinejad regime in Iran.
Sayed Ali (not his real name) said he sold his 11-year-old daughter, Rabia, for US$2,000 to a man in Sheberghan city, Jawzjan Province in northern Afghanistan to feed his wife and three younger children.
Venezuela has accused the US of provocation and plans to summon the American ambassador to explain the alleged violation of its airspace by a US military aircraft.
Crisis talks between rival Lebanese leaders have suffered a set-back after the opposition rejected a proposal by the talks' Qatari hosts to postpone discussion on a proposed electoral law.
Representatives from more than 100 countries have gathered at a conference in Dublin, Ireland's capital, in an attempt to agree a global ban on the use of cluster bombs.
News_Alerts 
Venezuela has accused the US of provocation and plans to summon the American ambassador to explain the alleged violation of its airspace by a US military aircraft.
The confirmed death toll in China's Sichuan province from last week's earthquake has increased to 40,075, China's State Council, or cabinet, has said. 
