News and Analysis (9/14/07)

Using more tricks to undermine its opposition, the government says it will not deter exiled former PM Bhutto from returning, but also says that she will have to face old corruption charges when she gets back, meanwhile more security turmoil rocks Pakistan as at least 60 people have died in clashes with the Taliban:

“By conventional shorthand, it is a society at war with itself. Rebels battle the government; the government battles the rebels. Yet the reality is more complicated. Lately, the fighting often as not pits tribe against tribe, warlord against warlord.” – Ban Ki-Moon, United Nations Secretary General

While members of Congress accuses Bush of trying to spin reduction of troops to pre-surge levels as a response to growing antiwar sentiment, a NY Times editorial argues that the President’s failed surge has left America without a plan:

International lawyer argues to “give democracy a chance” because a democratic bi-national one-state solution is the only means of solving “the Palestinian problem” and “the Zionism problem”:

    Alejandro

    Alejandro Beutel is program assistant for the Minaret of Freedom Institute with expertise in religious freedom, democratization and security issues.


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