- Names You Need To Know In 2011: Osama bin Laden
9/11 changed the way we live our lives. 9/11 changed the way we travel. 9/11 changed the way we relate to one another and the world. And for the past decade since the deadliest terrorist attack on U.S. soil, we've longed for justice. President George W. Bush started the search [...] 9 / 11は我々の生活を送る方法が変更されました
- Obama Demands Reforms in Syria During UK Visit
After meeting with British PM, US president urges Bashar Assad to 'end his policy of repression and begin the change that people seek’ イギリスの午後との会談後、ブッシュ大統領は。。u0026#39;抑圧の彼の政策を終了してから始まるように変更、人々が求めることが。。u0026#39;にバシャールアサドを促す
- Sen. Corker's Plan To Reduce The Fiscal Burden Of Government
America is in fiscal peril in the short run because of a 10-year spending binge by Bush and Obama and in the long run because of a toxic combination of entitlement programs and demographics. アメリカはブッシュ大統領とオバマ氏が10年浪費のために、資格プログラムや人口の毒性組み合わせのための長期的短期的には財政危機に陥っている
- George Bush's career in pictures
As George Bush's memoir Decision Points is published, we look back over his career as president
ジョージブッシュ大統領の回顧録の決定ポイントが公開されているので、我々は大統領としての彼のキャリアを振り返る
- Should George Bush have joined President Obama at Ground Zero? | Poll
As President Barack Obama visits Ground Zero, the site of the 11 September 2001 al-Qaida attack on New York, in the wake of Osama bin Laden's killing, former President George Bush has declined to join him in the ceremony. Officially, Bush wishes to keep a low profile, but some are reporting it as a snub.
バラクオバマ大統領はオサマビンラディン氏の殺害をきっかけに、グラウンドゼロ、ニューヨーク2001年9月11日、アルカイダの攻撃のサイトの訪問としては、元大統領ジョージブッシュ大統領は式典で、彼の参加を拒否している
- The shutdown and tax revenue and the top 400 | Michael Tomasky
As we discuss thirty-odd billion in cuts that will largely impact poor people most directly, let's step back and permit ourselves to be reminded of the big picture, with help from Jesse Drucker of Bloomberg Business Week:For the 400 US taxpayers with the highest adjusted gross income, the effective federal income tax rate – what they actually pay – fell from almost 30% in 1995 to just under 17% in 2007, according to the IRS. And for the approximately 1.4 million people who make up the top 1% of taxpayers, the effective federal income tax rate dropped from 29% to 23% in 2008. It may seem too fantastic to be true, but the top 400 end up paying a lower rate than the next 1,399,600 or so. That's not just good luck. It's often the result of hard work, as suggested by some of the strategies in the following pages. Much of the top 400's income is from dividends and capital gains, generated by everything from appreciated real estate – yes, there is some left – to stocks and the sale of family businesses. As Warren Buffett likes to point out, since most of his income is from dividends, his tax rate is less than that of the people who clean his office. A 17% effective rate. That's less than I pay, and I'm pretty sure it's less than you pay. I really wonder, conservative commenters, does this strike you as fair? Does this not bother you even a little?Trillions of dollars have been sacrificed over these last three decades to an economic theory (supply-side) that has demonstrably not worked as advertised, ever: Ronald Reagan grasped this by 1983 and started raising taxes, which he did seven or 11 times, depending on what you count. George W Bush would not acknowledge it, and the deficit skyrocketed as revenues did indeed drop, and dropped significantly. Here's the skinny, from Bruce 我々は32億円主に、最も直接的な貧しい人々に影響を与えるのは、一歩、自分自身は、大きな絵のことを思い出したように許可するには、ブルームバーグビジネスウィーク誌のJesseドラッカーからの助けを借りて聞かせてカットの奇数を議論するように：400米国の納税者については、最高調整後総所得は、効果的な連邦所得税の税率 - 実際に支払うもの - IRSによると、2007年のすぐ下に17％にほぼ30％、1995年から落ちた
- Former First Lady hospitalised
A family spokeswoman says former first lady Barbara Bush has been hospitalised in Houston to undergo routine tests, though doctors don't suspect anything serious.Spokeswoman Jean Becker says 84-year-old Bush hasn't been feeling... 家族の広報担当者は元大統領夫人バーバラブッシュヒューストンのルーチン検査を受けるために入院されているによると、しかし、医師しない容疑者は何serious.Spokeswomanジャンベッカー84歳のブッシュ大統領がいないされて感じだ...
- Cameron derides Bush-era policy
British Prime Minister David Cameron contradicted George W. Bush yesterday when he said he did not believe that the controversial interrogation technique of waterboarding saved lives. The Prime Minister, who was speaking at the... 彼は信じていないと言ったとき、イギリスの総理大臣デビッドキャメロンは昨日、ブッシュ大統領に矛盾が保存されて命を水責めの論争の尋問手法
- Tax cuts and growth and the two parties | Michael Tomasky
David Leonhardt at the Times asks an excellent question: Why are we reflexively assuming in the current tax debate that extending the Bush tax cuts will be good for growth?He then answers the question:Those tax cuts passed in 2001 amid big promises about what they would do for the economy. What followed? The decade with the slowest average annual growth since World War II. Amazingly, that statement is true even if you forget about the Great Recession and simply look at 2001-7.The competition for slowest growth is not even close, either. Growth from 2001 to 2007 averaged 2.39 percent a year (and growth from 2001 through the third quarter of 2010 averaged 1.66 percent). The decade with the second-worst showing for growth was 1971 to 1980 — the dreaded 1970s — but it still had 3.21 percent average growth.The picture does not change if you instead look at five-year periods. The slowest annual growth since WWII. Interesting. Leonhardt publishes a table showing GDP growth in five-year periods from 1956 to the present. As I perused this chart, I couldn't help but think who was president at which given time.Let's call 3% GDP the cut-off between really strong growth and so-so or worse growth. It's a reasonable general figure to employ. And if we do we see the following:1. 1960-1965, 5%; Democratic presidents2. 1996-2000, 4.3%; Democratic president3. 1976-1980, 3.7%; Democratic president4. 1965-1970, 3.4%; mostly Democratic president5. 1981-1985, 3.2%; Republican president6. 1986-1990, 3.2%; Republican presidentsSo those are the healthy periods. And now for the sickly ones:7. 1971-1975, 2.8%; Republican presidents8. 1956-1960, 2.6%; Republican president9. 1991-1995, 2.6%; mostly Republican president (Clinton inheriting recession)10. 2001-2005, 2.5%; Republican president11. 2006-2 タイムズのDavid Leonhardtさんは優秀な質問を：我々は反射的にブッシュ大統領の減税を拡大成長のために良いことに、現在の税の議論の前提としていますなぜ彼がして質問に答える：これらの税はについては、大きな約束の中で、2001年に渡されたカット何経済のためにするでしょう
- General Petraeus, US commander in Afghanistan, set to be head of CIA
David Petraeus, already an American national hero, is to replace Leon Panetta – in Barack Obama's first major reshuffleBarack Obama is planning to conduct the first major reshuffle of his administration that would see General David Petraeus, the US commander in Afghanistan, take over as head of the CIA and Leon Panetta, the CIA director, become defence secretary.The Associated Press, which broke the story, reported that Obama would make the announcement on Thursday.It marks a huge advancement for Petraeus amid speculation that he will stand as Republican candidate for the presidency in 2016. He is already seen as a national hero in the US, credited with turning around the war in Iraq.That military background plus the CIA job will provide him with a good platform should be opt to run for the White House.The shifts have been prompted by the long planned retirement of the defence secretary, Robert Gates, who served in the post under George W Bush and was asked by Obama to stay on.Petraeus was due to leave his post in Afghanistan at the end of the year, having completed his term, and there has been speculation about his next job.AP, quoting administration and other sources, said the reshuffle would take place in the summer.The changes will come at an important juncture in the Afghanistan war. US and British forces fought on through the winter for the first time, taking Taliban positions, and they will see how much damage this has done when the Taliban resumes fighting over the spring and summer.In the near future, Petraeus is scheduled to provide Obama with proposals for a limited number of troop cuts, while Obama is due to announce in July how many US troops will begin to return from Afghanistan.Panetta, a Democrat, was initially greeted with caution by the CIA but, accord デビッドペトレイアスは、すでにアメリカの国民的英雄、レオンパネッタを交換することです - バラクオバマの最初の主要なreshuffleBarackでオバマ氏は、一般的なデビッドペトレイアス、アフガニスタンでの米軍司令官を参照してください希望の頭としての役割を引き継ぐ政権の最初の主要な改造を行うことを計画している話を破った防衛secretary.The AP通信になるCIAとレオンパネッタ、CIA長官、、、のThursday.Itは、彼が共和党の候補者として立つという憶測の中でペトレイアスのための巨大な進歩をマークでオバマ氏が発表を行うことが報告2016年には大統領
- Economic Scene: In Tax Cuts, the Options Run Short
Democrats’ only chance to pass legislation on the Bush tax cuts before they expire involves a retreat. And proposing a millionaire’s tax may be part of the calculation. 有効期限が切れる前にブッシュ大統領の減税法案を渡すために民主党の唯一のチャンスは後退を伴います
- World Leaders React to bin Laden's Death
Former US President Bush calls death 'momentous achievement'; Indian Home Minister says news highlights concern that terrorists find 'sa 元米ブッシュ大統領は死の重大な成果を。。u0026#39;呼び出します
- Syrian raid showed 'Israel would go it alone'
Former United States President George W. Bush confirms in his memoir that the target of a 2007 Israeli airstrike was a Syrian nuclear reactor and suggests he quietly approved it.Offering insight into how high-stakes diplomacy... 元米国大統領ジョージWブッシュ大統領は2007年、イスラエルの空爆の標的は、シリアの原子炉であること、彼の回顧録で確認し、彼は静かにする方法ハイステークス外交への洞察をit.Offering承認示唆している...
- Embattled Bush to return Heisman Trophy
Former University of Southern California star running back Reggie Bush is handing back the Heisman Trophy, marking the first time in the award's 75-... 元大学、南カリフォルニアの星のバックレジーブッシュ大統領はハイズマントロフィーを返納すると、最初の時間をマーキング実行している賞の75 -...
- The Origins of Political Order by Francis Fukuyama – review
Francis Fukuyama was once a favourite of the US right. His new book, however, is a historical survey showing why the anti-state instincts of the Tea Party movement are wrongFor some 40 years, the American neo-conservative right has led an ever-more vehement crusade against the idea of the state. The aim has been to conflate the state with discredited socialism. The quest for a socialist utopia, runs the argument, has proved economically inefficient and politically coercive; because socialists deployed the state to achieve their ends, the state is thus economically inefficient and politically coercive as well. The superior form of economic and social organisation is a minimal state in a universe of moral individuals, families and companies freely contracting with one another in free markets.This movement has reached its apogee in two fundamentalist political movements – the American Tea Party movement and, unexpectedly, the British Conservative party. In the weeks ahead, the Republicans are set to refuse to lift the ceiling on the US national debt unless the Democrats accept a decisive down-payment in cutting US federal spending towards pre-modern levels. They want to reduce the US government to the scale it was in the late 19th century, even if it involves the hitherto unthinkable idea that the US government may default on its debts.Francis Fukuyama, a former favourite of the neocons, but increasingly disillusioned by how they led George W Bush disastrously to invade Iraq while indulging the recklessness that caused the financial crisis, has become more and more alarmed by the nihilism of modern American conservatism.It has become a potentially fatal virus undermining the American political system, which is now showing the same alarming traits as other systems that フランシスフクヤマは、米国の権利のお気に入りの一度でした
- How Bush gave Osama a free pass
George W Bush's rejection of a Taliban offer to have Osama bin Laden tried by a moderate group of Islamic states in mid-October 2001 denied the United States the only opportunity it would have to end the terrorist career of the al-Qaeda founder and his lieutenants for the next nine years. The absence of a US military plan to capture him was in effect a free pass from Tora Bora. - Gareth Porter (May 4, '11) タリバンオファーのジョージWブッシュ大統領の拒否は、オサマビンラディンは、10月中旬、2001年にイスラム諸国の中程度のグループが試みている、米国を唯一の機会を、それがアルカイダの創始者のテロのキャリアと部下を終了する必要がありますが拒否されました次の9年間
- Barack Obama defends US military intervention in Libya - video
In TV address, the US president says military intervention in Libya prevented a massacre
テレビ演説で、ブッシュ大統領はリビアの軍事介入は、大虐殺を防いだという
- Should US states be allowed to go bankrupt? | Poll
In a Los Angeles Times op-ed, Jeb Bush and Newt Gingrich argue that states with huge deficits should be allowed to declare themselves bankrupt. Do you agree?
ロサンゼルスタイムズ紙は社説、ジェブブッシュ大統領とギングリッチが、巨額の財政赤字と状態は、自身が破産を宣言して許されるべきだと主張している
- Chilcot inquiry: Blair denies offering Bush a 'blank cheque' - video
In his second appearance before the Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq war, former prime minister Tony Blair denies telling then-US president George Bush in a note in July 2002: 'You know, George, whatever you decide to do, I'm with you'
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- US fiscal policy: In place of prudence | Editorial
It is not about the right deficit for this year or next. It is about the need for a semblance of balance over the decades aheadIn Britain, deficit denial is a charge the right lays at the door of the left. Across the Atlantic, the term is being hurled by ratings agencies at Washington's newly divided government. Markets got the jitters on Monday after Standard & Poor's said, for the first time in 70 years of US bond watching, that it could soon cease to regard the sovereign IOUs of the world's sole superpower as copper-bottomed guarantees.The gnomes of the ratings agencies have had a dire crisis. Long in hock to vested interests, they only saw the private crunch coming after it arrived. There is justified anger as they now sit in judgment over small and cash-strapped democracies. The US, however, is a different matter. The planet regards its bonds as the safest of financial harbours, and no second-rater in any agency could transform this perception on his own. S&P's verdict hit home because it reflects what any Washington watcher can see. The US has grown keener on spending than paying its taxes, and is saddled with a political economy that punishes leaders who try to bring the two things back into line. The point here is not about the right deficit for this year or next, or the valuable role of pump-priming in a slump. It is rather about the need for a semblance of balance over the decades ahead.The irony is that the starting point is not dire. The lapsing of Bush-era tax cuts, which were legislated to be temporary, and the rise in taxable incomes once prosperity returns would have done much of the work automatically, if they had been allowed to take their course. Instead, the debate has been framed by Paul Ryan, Republican chair of the House budget committee, who is b それが今年か、次のに最適な財政赤字ではない
- Bush visit to NZ was rejected by Labour: Wikileaks
Leaked diplomatic cables by Wikileaks confirm that the United States raised with New Zealand the prospect of a visit by former President George W Bush to New Zealand.But it appears to have been turned down by Labour on the grounds... Wikileaksはで流出外交ケーブルは、米国、ニュージーランドと、それが理由で労。断られているように見える新Zealand.But元大統領ジョージWブッシュ大統領との面会の見通しを上げたことを確認...
- EA Sports Exec Says NFL Lockout Has Been Good for Its NCAA Football Franchise
NEW YORK -- Who knew EA Sports cover athletes would end up competing for the same spot on the same team? At the 2011 NFL Draft, the New Orleans Saints looked to the future by picking Heisman trophy winner Mark Ingram. By picking the former Alabama running back, the team ultimately was parting ways with Reggie Bush. It was out with the old (Bush was on the cover of NCAA Football 07), and in with the new (Ingram graces the cover of NCAA Football 12). ニューヨーク - EAのスポーツ選手が同じチームで同じ場所に競合することになりますカバー知っていましたか？ 2011 NFLドラフトでは、ニューオーリンズセインツはハイズマントロフィー受賞して、Mark Ingramさんを選ぶことによって、将来に見えた
- Obama turns to Clinton to rally Democrats
NEW YORK: With his approval ratings plummeting and his party facing a pummelling in crucial elections, the US President, Barack Obama, has turned for salvation to the man who was until recently his harshest Democratic critic: Bill Clinton. ニューヨーク：彼の支持率は、彼の党急落重要な選挙でpummellingに直面して、ブッシュ大統領は、バラクオバマ氏は、最近まで彼の過酷な民。評論家：ビルクリントン男に救いのためになっている
- David Cameron and Barack Obama meet in Washington
The prime minister and the US president hold talks at the White House
首相とホワイトハウスでブッシュ大統領の会談を
- Barry's Fairyland at Foggy Bottom
This is the first draft of a tale about a kingdom that was once the greatest in all the land. Now a woeful feeling—a gloom—has been cast over the kingdom, because its once great stature and prosperity is slipping away. The keepers of the kingdom in recent years have not been good keepers. George of Bush the 2nd lost his magic-veto-pen and let the Councils spend far too much of the kingdom’s stores of food and supplies. これは、一度、すべての土地の最大のであった王国に関する物語の最初のドラフトです
- Libya: Obama's Iraq moment?
United States President Barack Obama built much of his foreign policy image in contrast to his predecessor's unilateral interventionism; now, a selective interpretation of legal documents to justify a war with no clear objective or exit strategy places him on a slippery slope. All that Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi needs to do to win is survive, and Obama will be unable to avoid a George W Bush in Iraq moment. - Victor Kotsev (Mar 21, '11) 米国バラクオバマ大統領は、前任者の一方的な介入とは対照的に多くの彼の外交政策イメージの構築が、今、法的文書の選択の解釈は、明確な目標や出口戦略との戦争を正当化するために滑りやすい斜面に彼を配置します
- Obama's Iraq address | Michael Tomasky
Wait. Didn't this war end once before? It did, at least rhetorically. Can you guess the date on which President George W. Bush, crotch protruding before the eyes of the world, declared the end of major combat operations in Iraq?It was well before they ended, which was today in fact. But I invoke the image not only to chide Bush but to make a point.Presidents like to announce the ends of wars that can be put, as we say in America, in the W column. But Tuesday night in his prime-time Oval Office speech, Barack Obama could not say that the war in Iraq was a win. He could say only that it was over. If nothing else, making the announcement did permit him to remind Americans that he was keeping a promise he made to them as candidate, a point on which I thought he might have put just a bit more emphasis.It was a better speech than his previous and only other Oval Office address, the one on the BP spill. Maybe that's mostly because of context. He gave the BP speech while the oil was still gushing out. At least in this case, we'd all seen the footage of the tanks rolling away from Iraq and into Kuwait. But I thought it was a bit more than just context. He had to say something about the divisions in the country over the war, and he had to acknowledge his own opposition to it. At the same time, a president can't just up and say that a war wasn't worth fighting, which would be interpreted as his saying that 4,427 people died for nothing. So there was a line to walk, and it seemed to me he walked it well. Mentioning that he'd spoken to Bush that afternoon was effective - a suggestion that maybe we could put some of those divisions behind us.Alas, many other divisions remain. The attempt to link the war's end to the economy was less successful than the rhetoric about the war itself f 待ってください
- The Republicans: no more party of no | James Antle
Winning the election was the easy part. Now the GOP has to govern tooRonald Reagan may have been a sunny optimist but conservatives have traditionally been a gloomy bunch. Tuesday's Republican victory, a dramatic reversal of fortunes for a party that was thought to be doomed to years in the minority, was a cause for conservative jubilation. Allow me to bring us back to our usual gloom and doom.The Democrats lost this election because they failed to appreciate the fundamental disconnect between the two distinct groups of voters who brought them to power in the first place: the Democrats' progressive base, which wanted to move the country to the left, and the independents, who merely wanted to be rid of George W Bush. Satisfying the first group always carried the risk of alienating the second.And alienate them they did. In 2006, 57% of independents voted for Democratic House candidates. Two years later, they broke for Barack Obama by eight points. This year, independents voted 55% to 40% for Republican congressional candidates. That's a shift from a 18-point Democratic advantage to a 15-point Republican one, in just four years.The Republicans now face the same risk the Democrats did after the last two elections, and they don't seem to be any more aware of it. Their conservative base, typified by the Tea Party, wants to move the country to the right. The independent voters merely wanted to rebuke Obama and fire Nancy Pelosi. In the process, they replaced a Congress that was to the left of the electorate as a whole with one that is to its right.Polls indicate the independents agree with the conservatives about runaway federal spending and budget deficits, just as they once showed independent agreement with progressives about the Iraq war and the need for healthcare reform. 選挙に勝つ簡単な部分でした
- Mike Sanders: 'I am an Obama person. I like Obama'
Mike Sanders, a retired teacher, tells fellow resident Summer Sellers he believes Barack Obama has done a good job of dealing with the problems left by George Bush
マイクサンダースは、退職した教師、仲間の居住夏のベストセラーを伝える彼はバラクオバマ氏はブッシュ大統領が残した問題に対処するのは良い仕事を行っていると考えている
- Osama: over to you, Hollywood
Who will be the key players in the blockbuster that's sure to come?Given Hollywood's eagerness to meditate on Osama bin Laden's biggest atrocities, you can guarantee that it won't hold back now his death has gifted it the chance for some sweet catharsis.Kathryn Bigelow is already making a project called Kill Bin Laden in time for the 2013 Oscars, but this is problematic. Not only will everyone have forgotten about the raid by then, but what if Bigelow decides to make it – shock horror – intellectual?No, to properly capitalise on the current global mood, we need a populist director such as Michael Bay (The Rock, Pearl Harbor, Armageddon) to turn this weekend's events into a kneejerk, all-American blockbuster to be released on Independence Day.Now that Barack Obama has shed his bookish image, he can be played by someone tough such as Denzel Washington or – better yet – Wesley Snipes in his full Blade get-up (pictured). Then there are the US soldiers who raided the compound – perhaps Kiefer Sutherland (Jack Bauer), Matt Damon (Jason Bourne), one of the Transformers, and the retired WWF tag team Legion of Doom? For comic relief, Sohaib Athar – the man who inadvertently livetweeted the raid – could be played by Omid Djalili.Speaking of which, there's a prime opportunity to use the technology that created the Winklevoss twins in The Social Network to allow Clyde, the orangutan from Every Which Way But Loose, to portray both Donald Trump and George W Bush. Finally, there's Bin Laden himself; a role for Catherine Zeta Jones or the little girl from the Narnia films?Part-24, part-Rambo, all-Kickass – and with a soundtrack by Bruce Springsteen, John Cougar Mellencamp and every single country singer ever – this film will make you laugh and cry and whoop, and contemplate b 来る？オサマビンラディンの最大の残虐行為について黙想して、ハリウッドの熱意考えることだ大ヒットの重要な選手になることは誰には、今では彼の死は、いくつかの甘いcatharsis.Kathrynのためにそれに才能豊かなチャンスを持って戻って保持していないことを保証することができますビゲローは、すでに2013年アカデミー賞のための時間で殺すビンラディンと呼ばれるプロジェクトを作っているが、これは問題がある
- Osama Bin Laden: the legacy for Afghanistan | Jonathan Steele
Afghanistan suffered more than most from Osama bin Laden's campaigns and the reaction to them. Can it now turn a corner?Osama Bin Laden's killing is a huge victory for the Obama administration and it will go a long way towards giving closure to Americans. But will it also revive the 10-year-old question about the wisdom of the war in Afghanistan, in which half as many Americans have already died as Bin Laden killed on 9/11, not to mention the many more Afghan civilians who have lost their lives in the attack that George W Bush launched on their country in October 2001?It was understandable that Americans wanted justice after the appalling atrocities of 9/11 but justice should never be confused with revenge. Revenge is hot-blooded but justice needs to be cool and controlled. Rushing to topple the Taliban looked more like a response governed by revenge and a desire to show that something was being done rather than a response that fitted the crime.The 19 men who perpetrated 9/11 were not Afghans and none had trained for their devastating quadruple hijacking in Afghanistan.Bin Laden's haven in Taliban country was a short-term marriage of convenience, which the Bush administration made no real effort to break other than by its rhetorical demand that the Taliban hand him over or else they would be punished. By the time the demand was made bin Laden had already left Kandahar and the Taliban probably had as little power to catch him as indeed the Americans had.It is often forgotten that it was not the Taliban who offered bin Laden sanctuary in Afghanistan. When he decided to leave Sudan, his previous headquarters, the Afghans who gave him a place to stay were the former mujahideen leaders who were fighting for their lives against the emerging new Taliban movement. Bin Laden, wi アフガニスタン、オサマビンラディンのキャンペーンや、それらへの反応から最も以上苦しんだ
- The UN, and the bombing begins | Michael Tomasky
So the strikes will begin soon. I guess one has to say that this sort of thing is pretty much what the UN was created for. The 10-0 vote and the backing of the Arab League, taken so far as we know of its own volition, do show a genuinely multilateral and international approach to dealing with crisis.Contrast this most obviously with Iraq, when it was clear that the US was going in (Bush still lies about this point, even in Decision Points, which is patently ridiculous, but he has to lie about it because to tell the truth suddenly after years of maintaining this crucial lie would destroy whatever vestigial credibility he retains). And when we bullied and browbeat other Security Council members into voting with us. And at least Obama isn't running around and making a humiliating spectacle of himself by bragging about the Marshall Islands being involved.Contrast it even with the Persian Gulf War. There, Bush Sr. and Jim Baker did a somewhat more honest job of rounding up international support. And Iraq did after all in that instance invade a sovereign country (albeit one that was evidently taking some of its oil, a point many people forget these days). But even there, you felt Bush, a recession president whose numbers were flimsy at the time, wanted a good little winnable war.This is a war nobody wanted. Well, not nobody. Cameron and Sarkozy wanted it, evidently. I haven't followed them closely enough to know their motivations, but let's face it, it's easy enough for them. In the back of their minds, they always know that if things get messy it's really the United States that will be left holding the bag.Hussein Ibish writes:So what changed? I think it's obvious: the Qaddafi regime appeared, in the past 48 hours, to perhaps be on the brink of a decisive victory, potentiall ストライキがすぐに開始されますので
- The rise of the centre-right: How should development NGOs respond? | Stephen Hale
The centre-right dominates the political north, so campaigners need to adapt their approach if they want to change the outlook of these governmentsThe centre-right dominates the global governing class in the north. Europe has right-wing presidents or prime ministers in 21 of the EU's 27 member states. Canada is led by the right, though now preparing for a general election. Barack Obama's election in the US bucked the trend, but the Republicans and indeed the Tea Party now exert very strong influence over US policy following recent elections.Development campaigners in northern countries seek to influence these politicians and secure public support for policies that remove the structural barriers to eliminating poverty and injustice in the south. So it's critical that we think long and hard about the implications of the changing outlook of these governments.We need to adapt our approach if we are to be successful. We should do so not simply because it will engage individual politicians, but because this is an essential part of broadening and deepening support for action on global poverty.There are probably quite a few Guardian readers who believe it is governments of the left that deliver on development. But there are heroes and villains on both sides. On the right, President Nicolas Sarkozy is showing global leadership through France's G20 presidency. In the UK the Conservative-led government has remained committed to the goal of 0.7% GDP in aid, though it is much too early to assess its overall approach. We do have eight years of the George W Bush presidency to judge. Todd Moss, of the highly respected US Center for Global Development, described development as the key foreign policy achievement of the Bush presidency, admittedly not a tough accolade to earn.We need to g 彼らは北の世界支配のクラスを支配し、これらのgovernmentsThe中道右派の見通しを変更する場合は中央右は、政治の北を支配するため、活動家は、彼らのアプローチを適応させる必要があります
- US Republicans move to block abortion services in poor countries | Sarah Boseley
The battle over abortion access in the US again threatens to spill over into the developing world, where Republicans want US funding cut from family planning organisations that promote it. The cost could be deaths at the hands of back-street abortionistsNaively, I thought the battle over the Global Gag rule had been won, at least while Barack Obama is president of the United States. Also known as the Mexico City rule, it's the legislation brought in by successive Republican administrations in the US to block federal money from being given to any family planning provider in the developing world that helps, or even just advises, women who come looking for an abortion.But no. Obama, like Bill Clinton before him, rescinded the legislation that George Bush had reinstated. Now, however, the Republican majority in the House wants to bring it back again. This is the text of their proposal in the Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act (H.R. 1), adopted by the House on a party-line vote of 235 to 189 on 19 February:None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this division for the department of state, foreign operations, and related programmes for population planning activities or other population assistance may be made available to any foreign non-governmental organisation that promotes or performs abortion, except in cases of rape or incest or when the life of the mother would be endangered if the foetus were carried to term.The fight over abortion within the US, although impassioned and sometimes violent, arguably does not have quite the scale of malign consequences that a reimposed Global Gag could have. The reason why this is an issue with horrifying repercussions in poor countries is that contraception is not widely and easily available, and many women wh 米国では妊娠中絶へのアクセスをめぐる戦いが再び共和党はそれを促進する家族計画団体から切断、米国の資金が欲しい発展途上国、に波及する恐れがある
- The final reasons for going to war are being swept away | Editorial
The allegations of allied complicity in torture point to a complete moral failureThere was no single reason why Britain and the US went to war in Iraq. The motives that inspired George W Bush and Tony Blair have been variously dissected, analysed and psychoanalysed. It is too early for history to have formed a settled view on the war, but the case that it was a monumental error gets ever more compelling.Most of the official justifications for war, on grounds of security from terror and weapons of mass destruction, have been discredited. The only element of moral authority left in the decision might be that Saddam Hussein ran a murderous regime, characterised by torture and extra-judicial killing. It could indeed have been the duty of western powers to intervene against such atrocity. But the western occupiers quickly became complicit in atrocities of their own, as new leaked military documents reveal.The files, passed to WikiLeaks and reported in today's Observer, reveal how allied forces turned a blind eye to torture and murder of prisoners held by the Iraqi army. Reports of appalling treatment of detainees were verified by the US army and deemed unworthy of further investigation. Responsibility for disciplinary action was passed to the Iraqi units that had perpetrated the abuse. In a handful of cases, allied soldiers are directly implicated in abuse.The leaked files expose a cavalier attitude towards international law with regard to the treatment of enemy soldiers and disgraceful tolerance of civilian casualties.The thrust of these allegations is not new. But each extra piece of evidence builds a portrait of a military occupation deeply implicated in practices that were illegal under international law and unconscionable in the eyes of any reasonable observer.The terri 完全な道徳的failureThere]をポイントし、拷問に英国と米国がイラク戦争に行った理由は1つの理由だったの主張は共犯同盟
- Barack Obama: The remake | Editorial
If the last session of Congress proved anything, it is that the US president has to fight to win – and start being the star of his own showA bruising year for Barack Obama is ending on a comparatively high note. The lame duck session of a Congress characterised by obstructionism saw welcome, if belated, cracks opening up in the Republican monolith. In one day last week, 13 Republicans crossed over to ratify the New Start nuclear arms treaty with Russia. Earlier, the president signed a bill repealing the US army's ban on open service by gay, lesbian and bisexual soldiers: 23 Republicans helped with that. A scaled back version of a bill to pay the medical care of workers who cleaned up Ground Zero after the 11 September attacks also went through.Comparative success are the operative words. The new start was hardly a bold one. What was supposed to be a traffic hump on the road to a more ambitious agenda, which was to include ratification of the comprehensive test ban treaty, became its own Sisyphean struggle. Over a five-week campaign, Henry Kissinger, Angela Merkel, the former president George W Bush, every living Republican former secretary of state and the entire defence establishment were enlisted to persuade Republicans that ditching New Start would not be in the national interest. A commitment to spend $85bn on the superfluous and contradictory task of modernising the US nuclear arsenal was thrown in as a sweetener. The US regained a mechanism for verifying the status of Russia's nuclear arsenal, but at high cost. If we were to look at the bigger picture, it would not be overly pessimistic to say that the dream of taking bolder steps towards disarmament died with the passing of that treaty.The major legislative achievement of Obama's administration, health reform, ha とバラクオバマのための彼自身の昭和あざ今年の星は、比較的大盛況のうちに終わろうとしているされ始める - 議会の最後のセッションは何を証明した場合には、米大統領が勝つために戦わなければならないということです
- State of the union address 2011: how did Obama's text compare to other US presidents?
The State of the Union address is Barack Obama's chance to set out his stall in 2011. How does his speech compare to previous US presidents?• Get the dataThe State of the Union address has been delivered by Barack Obama to the joint houses of Congress last night. How did his second address compare the second State of the Union speeches from previous American presidents? To compare, we've taken the text of the first addresses of key presidents from the University of California's American Presidency Project, as we did last year with the first State of the Union address from Obama. By counting the frequency of words used (and filtering out common words and the least used), we can see how each president has chosen to focus their speech. And to really see how language compares, there is no finer tool than Wordle.net. We've taken the text and visualized the words. Click on the image above to see how Obama compares to Bush, Roosevelt, Reagan, Lincoln, Washington and JFK.So what are the key words the presidents have used most frequently? As expected 'I' and 'will' appear the most in all of the addresses, creating an atmosphere of strength and leadership in the speeches. Other words that crop up often are 'government', 'America' and 'more' - although interestingly George Washington neither mentioned America or the world in his second State of the Union address.By looking at the wordles of previous second addresses by US presidents, there is a strong sense of themes relevant to the time in which it took place, for example in Franklin D Roosevelt's speech in 1944 - amidst WWII - the word 'war' was used 47 times and words such as 'nation', 'service' and 'freedom' were prevalent in the text. (You can download it as a PDF too). So what does Obama's address tell us?Economy is still t 演説の状態は2011年に彼の失速を設定するにはバラクオバマ氏のチャンスです
- Chilcot inquiry: The bare facts on Iraq are there for all to see, Mr Blair
The former prime minister's responses to key questions on Iraq are, to put it charitably, elusive and less than completeThe questions sent by the Chilcot Inquiry to Tony Blair make crystal clear the key issues on which the report will focus.In the run up to the war these include: the timing, nature and extent of commitments given to President Bush; the preparation and presentation of intelligence; the circumstances of the decision to return to the United Nations; the role of the attorney general and the effect of his legal advice at various stages; the role of the cabinet; and the presentation of information to parliament and the public.Mr Blair's responses to those questions are, to put it charitably, elusive and less than complete. But once the fluff is stripped away, today's defensive testimony, the written answers and the totality of the evidence before the tribunal points to a simple story: the prime minister took an early decision to support President Bush in the quest to remove Saddam, assured him repeatedly of his unequivocal statement of support, ignored the law, and deprived the cabinet and parliament of key information.In short, Mr Blair managed to skilfully lead the entire machinery of government — attorney general, cabinet, parliament — into a place from which British involvement in the war became inevitable.Mr Blair has paid a big price for delivering his commitment to President Bush: his legacy is an unlawful and disastrous conflict that continues to cause misery and claim lives, shredding public trust in government, diminishing Britain's role in the world, and undermining the rule of law. To the Chilcot inquiry falls the task of picking up the pieces.Philippe Sands QC is professor of law, University College London, and a barrister at Matrix ChambersIraqM ているイラクのキーの質問に元首相の反応はとらえどころのない、トニーブレアにチルコットお問い合わせから送信されたcompleteThe質問に満たない場合には、寛大な言い方をするとする明確な結晶は、レポートが、実行をfocus.Inする重要な問題戦争は、これらの含まれます：タイミング、性質及び程度、ブッシュ大統領に与えられた約束;準備とプレゼンテーションの知性の、国連に戻るには、意思決定の状況、検事総長の役割と彼の法的助言の効果を様々な段階は、内閣の役割、および議会への情報のプレゼンテーションおよびそれらの質問へのブレア首相の応答はpublic.Mrと、ほぼ完全にもとらえどころのない、寛大な言い方をすると
- Wikileaks and the ISI-Taliban nexus | Peter Galbraith
Pakistan's intelligence leaders should ask whether their support of the Taliban is worth the price the country may have to payThe Wikileaks documents, splashed in the Guardian and several other papers, provide useful confirmation of what is readily discerned from public sources: the Afghanistan War is going badly, the Taliban are exceptionally brutal, US forces have not always attacked the right targets and elements in Pakistan continue to support the Taliban.The most striking feature of the documents – an unprecedented 90,000 pages of mostly raw intelligence that could only be leaked thanks to 21st-century technology that enables large volumes of data to be compressed into a tiny thumb drive – is the inconsistent quality of the intelligence. Americans should be asking why they are paying upwards of $50bn for this kind of information and why military officers and diplomats so rely on it.Of all this information, the most troubling concerns the duplicitous double dealing by Pakistan's powerful spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence, or ISI. While some of the intelligence seems wildly implausible (surely the ISI did not plot to poison Kabul-bound beer, an enormously complex operation with limited pay off since US troops are not allowed to drink alcohol in Afghanistan), the Wikileaks documents show a continued relationship between the ISI and the Taliban. This is not surprising. In the 1990s, the ISI helped create the Taliban and Pakistani support was decisive to the Taliban's capture of Kabul in 1996. The US has known since 2001 that Pakistan did not break its ties with the Taliban as President Pervez Musharraf had promised President Bush. After all, Mullah Omar and his close associates have been in Pakistan since 2001 and it is not plausible that Pakistan did not kno パキスタンの情報指導者かどうかをタリバンの支持は、price国の価値Wikileaksは文書payTheする必要がありますが、求める必要がありますガーディアンやいくつかの他の論文はね、容易にパブリックソースから明察は何か役に立つ確認：アフガニスタン戦争を提供goingている米軍は、常に文書のTaliban.The最も印象的な機能を - だけ感謝に流出する可能性がほとんど生の知能の前例のない90,000ページのサポートを継続右ターゲットとパキスタンの要素を攻撃していないひどく、タリバンは非常に残酷なさできる21世紀の技術大量のデータは、小型の親指ドライブに圧縮する - 知性の矛。品質です
- Line in the sand on taxes | Michael Tomasky
Let us say first that yes, on balance, I probably think that the Bush tax cuts should be repealed for everybody, or nearly everybody. I don't say that lightly, because I understand that a return to the old higher rate - which is a tax increase, at the end of the day - might be hardship for many people.On the other hand, actual dollar amounts for taxpayers at the US median, around $52,000, would be really small. I went to this handy-dandy calculator set up by the Tax Foundation and plugged in a few numbers to see. It will tell you what your tax burden would be if Congress kills all the Bush tax cuts and what it will be if Congress passes the Democratic proposal, which is as we know to increase taxes only on households about $250,000.So for example. Single person at $52,000: no difference under Dem proposal. Married couple with two kids at $80,000: no difference under Dem proposal. But this calculator says the difference would be $2,137 if Congress let all Bush cuts expire.That's a lot of money. More than I thought frankly when I started writing this post. Gives me a little pause. A family of four living on $80,000 is doing fine in many parts of the country, but they are not overwhelmingly comfortable, and $2,100 buys a couple of dental appointments for the kids, a few video games and maybe a night out at the ballgame, all things of value to a family.At the same time, keeping these cuts will cost $3 trillion over a decade. That's a considerable amount of money too. Doing without it puts tremendous pressure on entitlements, for starters, which is exactly what today's Republicans want. They want to get rid of Social Security and Medicare. Only a few of them actually say that, of course, and as soon as they do (Sharron Angle, Joe Miller) some consultant shuttles in to tell t 私たちはまず、はい、バランスに、私はおそらくブッシュ減税は皆、またはほぼすべての人のための廃止すべきだと思います言ってみましょう
- George Bush: Worst. President. Ever? | Richard Adams
Academic poll ranks George Bush as one of the worst presidents in US history. But was he really as bad as all that?It's time for another one of those pseudo-serious polls rating the US presidents. This one, from Siena College's research institute, asked 238 presidential scholars to rank the 43 presidents [pdf], and judged that George Bush was among the worst of all time.According to the survey:Today, just one year after leaving office, the former president has found himself in the bottom five at 39th rated especially poorly in handling the economy, communication, ability to compromise, foreign policy accomplishments and intelligence. Rounding out the bottom five are four presidents that have held that dubious distinction each time the survey has been conducted: Andrew Johnson, James Buchanan, Warren G Harding, and Franklin Pierce.To no one's surprise, FDR was ranked as the number one best president, followed by Teddy Roosevelt at number two (he's on the rise, it seems) and Abraham Lincoln and George Washington at three and four.Let's admit straight away that these sorts of polls, while fun, are silly and pointless, and that no real comparison can be made by politicians of different eras.With that out of the way, let me say that George Bush does not deserve this calumny – although he does deserve some criticism, as most US presidents do. But this just isn't fair or reasonable.For example, Richard Nixon is ranked 30th, while Bush junior is 39th. Now it seems plain to me at least that by resigning in disgrace, ahead of certain impeachment, as well as his foreign policy in Laos and Cambodia, Nixon should sit below GWB in any ranking. Both men had fairly disastrous economic policies, but Nixon's did far more damage to America, although I'd be open to arguments on that.The ab 学術調査は、米国史上最悪の大統領として、ジョージブッシュをランク付けする
- Enter the pope, to a clash of news agendas
TV coverage of the pope's visit will have to tread a fine line between the demands of the pews and the newsOne of my childhood TV memories is from the coverage of President Nixon's 1969 visit to Britain: an image of a shadowy Richard Nixon adjusting his tie as he was glimpsed through the oval door-window of Airforce One.At that time, it was common for the BBC to clear the schedules for the arrivals, speeches and departures of foreign heads of state. That convention has largely lapsed, although a Clinton, Obama or Bush can command long stretches on the 24-hour news channels. Now, the only foreign leader who can expect to kick out property and game shows when his jet lands here is the star of The Pope's Visit, which claims many hours on BBC1 and BBC2 next week.There's another parallel with that presidential drop-in: as Nixon was a controversial figure, footage shows a large police presence, aimed at preventing protests. The tension between two genres of television – ceremonial and journalistic – became so marked that the BBC made an official apology for acerbic commentary by the young David Dimbleby.That potential clash of agendas will be present again during Benedict XVI's trip: the pressure, in this case, between the demands of the pews and of the news. Although Pope John Paul II came to Britain in controversial circumstances (Britain was at war with Argentina over the Falklands), he did not risk protests against his presence.But anger over the Vatican's handling of clerical abuse scandals means the traditional model for covering state visits – pomp and circumspection – will be severely tested. Acknowledging this, the BBC has unusually scheduled two critical warm-up documentaries: Monday's Panorama: What The Pope Knew and Wednesday's Benedict: Trials of a Pope. This so 法王の訪問のテレビ報道はプーズの要求と私の子供時代のテレビの思い出のnewsOne英国にニクソン大統領の1969年の訪問の報道から：影のリチャードニクソンのイメージとして彼のネクタイを調。紙一重トレッドする必要があります彼は空軍One.At当時の楕円形のドア窓から垣間見えるが、それは共通のBBCは、スピーチや外国の首脳たちの出発を到着のスケジュールをクリアするためだった
- Bob Woodward up to his old tricks in infiltrating presidencies
Veteran reporter combines journalistic talent with star appeal to gain access to White House regimes and produce bestsellersThis week's fair bet at the bookies: Bob Woodward's latest insider tale from the White House will effortlessly sail its way into the bestsellers list. After all, every one of his past 15 books have done so, a record 11 of them as number one non-fiction bestsellers.How he came to occupy that enviable position is a story of exceptional journalistic ability combined with star power. He began as the other half of the legendary Carl Bernstein-Bob Woodward double act that played a leading part in blowing open the Watergate scandal and evicting President Nixon from the White House.His gargantuan success as an author followed directly from that. The first number one bestseller, and still the best known, was All the President's Men, written with Bernstein and published in the immediate aftermath of Watergate.Woodward's genius has been to turn the celebrity he gained from Watergate – not least Robert Redford's portrayal of him in the film adaptation of the book – into unprecedented political access. Over the past 20 years he has developed his own brand of White House fly-on-the-wall.His initial effort was with the first George Bush presidency, in The Commanders (1991). Bill Clinton got the Woodward treatment in The Agenda (1994) and was said to have been mightily upset by its portrayal of his chaotic administration.The second George Bush had to endure no fewer than four Woodward books. The first two were lambasted by some for being starry-eyed towards the Bush team and for having swallowed spoon-fed material, including erroneous claims about the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, from the likes of Donald Rumsfeld. Woodward, his reputation some ホワイトハウスからボブウッドワードの最新インサイダー物語は簡単ベストセラーリストにその方法を航行する：ベテラン記者がホワイトハウスの政権へのアクセスを得るために、ブックメーカーでbestsellersThis週の公。賭けを生成するスターの魅力とジャーナリスティックな才能を兼ね備えています
- US sends more soldiers on covert missions
Pentagon confirms expansion of undercover operations in Middle East, central Asia and Horn of AfricaThe US military is expanding covert operations in the Middle East, central Asia and the Horn of Africa, sending troops on undercover operations that were previously left mainly to the CIA and other civilian spy agencies.Pentagon officials confirmed today that General David Petraeus, the head of US Central Command, signed the order in September to broaden the scope of surveillance and other undercover work in these regions.It opens the way for clandestine operations more extensive than those approved under the Bush administration. There are few details in the order about specific operations, but US military teams have been variously reported to be active in Iran, Yemen, Syria, Somalia, Saudi Arabia and elsewhere.Special operations teams will work, sometimes alongside local forces, to penetrate and disrupt groups such as al-Qaida and prepare for future attacks, possibly against Iran.The New York Times, which disclosed the existence of the new order, said it was aimed primarily at intelligence-gathering rather than the kind of offensive covert actions directed by Donald Rumsfeld while he was Bush's defence secretary.According to the Times, the focus of the intelligence-gathering is to identify militants and it would be carried out not only by American troops but by business workers, academics and others.This revelation will increase the already existing suspicion in some of these countries of people travelling for business or study.The order reflects the shift from traditional warfare between countries to combating groups such as al-Qaida. But it creates a potential hazard for troops, who would not be covered by the Geneva convention and would be treated as spies.There has l 米国防総省は東アジア、中央アジア中。秘密の操作の拡大を確認し、ホーンAfricaThe米軍の中東では、中央アジアとホーンをアフリカの秘密工作を展開して、以前mainly CIAと他に残されたおとり操作に派兵民間スパイagencies.Pentagon当局は本日、一般的なデービッドペトレイアスは、米中央司令部の長は、9月に監視し、これらregions.Itの他の秘密の仕事の範囲を広げるために署名を確認秘密の操作の詳細これらのより広範な道を開くブッシュ政権の下で承認されました
- Obama's exit strategy from Iraq under threat once again
Christopher Hill's departure from Iraq after a stint as US ambassador has eerie parallels with that of Paul Bremer, with both leaving the country at a tipping pointFor the second time since the fall of Baghdad, America's main man in Iraq has ended a year-long stay by talking up a country on the wrong side of a tipping point. US ambassador Christopher Hill's departure last weekend was a much lower-profile exit than the dash to the airport in 2004 of unpopular post-invasion viceroy Paul Bremer, but it did have eerie parallels.Bremer left claiming he had helped make Iraq sovereign and to establish the foundations of a functional state. His prophecy was in tatters long before George W Bush gave him America's highest civilian honour, for his role in running post-Saddam Iraq in the shambolic early days of the occupation.Hill arrived in Iraq 16 months ago on a mission to turn things around. Sectarian chaos had ravaged the country in the interim. Bush's democratic project here looked stillborn, far from being central to the birth pangs of a new Middle East. And, more important for a US diplomat, America's standing both in the region and around the world had taken a pounding.Like Bremer, Hill also claims to have made gains. But in mid-2010, it is difficult to find any trend or tangible evidence to support his optimism. Indeed, the country looks in worse shape than when Hill arrived.Over the past month, US officials have been trying hard to push the incumbent prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, and Iyad Allawi, the man who edged him out in a general election five months ago, into a power-sharing arrangement that would end a dangerous political deadlock.Like a pair of bull walruses fighting, neither man has given ground as the fragile security gains of the past two years threaten to 米国大使としての任務の後、イラクからのクリストファーヒルの出発の両方のチップpointForバグダッド、イラクでアメリカの主要な人間の秋から2番目の時に1年にわたる滞在を終了している国を残しているポールブレマーと不気味な類似を持っている転換点の反対側の国を話すことによって
- Obama needs a Tea Party of his own to deliver change | Seumas Milne
The beleaguered US president may be the head of an imperial system. But he can still wind down the war on terrorThere's not the slightest mystery about the sweeping Republican advance in Tuesday's US midterm elections. It's the direct outcome of an epoch-changing crisis and a failed economic model. Six million Americans have fallen below the poverty line in less than three years, official unemployment is close to one in 10, two and a half million people have had their homes repossessed, living standards are dropping and an anaemic economic recovery already risks going into reverse.Most Americans may not blame Barack Obama for the crash. But they know his spending programme hasn't turned those numbers round, while millions have been drawn to the racialised populism of the ultra-conservative Tea Party movement. In the political space left vacant by Obama and the Democratic mainstream, a big business-funded campaign has channelled rage against Bush's bank bailout and the featherbedding of corporate America into blind opposition to government action and the president's stimulus package.In reality the stimulus has saved up to 3.3m jobs, according to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office, even though it represented only a small fraction of the collapse of private demand. It would have needed to be much larger – and combined with far tougher intervention in the banks – to overcome the impact of the credit collapse.But if that was impossible with a Democrat-controlled Congress, it's out of the question now. Some of Tuesday night's results offer crumbs of comfort that America's latest hard right insurgency could yet consume itself. The defeat of Ilario Pantano, Republican candidate in North Carolina and an ex-marine lieutenant who was hailed by his party as a war her 悩める米大統領は皇室システムの頭することができる
- Time for the Cuban travel ban to go | Stephen Wilkinson
The US has stalled over moves to end the nonsensical travel ban on Cuba. But with reform afoot in Havana, the time is ripeOf all the misguided policies that the US has towards Cuba, perhaps the most nonsensical, counterproductive and downright hypocritical is the travel ban. Cuba is the only country in the world that Americans cannot visit. Under the current restrictions, brought in by George W Bush, only Cuban-Americans and, through a complex licensing regime, a few businessmen, journalists, students and academics can travel to Cuba. Because tourism is not allowed, 99% of their compatriots just can't go. Quite why the citizens of what is supposed to be the bastion of freedom should be not be free to travel wherever they choose is a question that not even the supreme court has adequately addressed. It's a violation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and makes the US call for human rights in Cuba ring very hollow. The US is the only nation in the world with a Cuba travel ban. If it believes it appropriate to ban Americans from visiting nations that have a deplorable human rights record then why doesn't the US declare dozens of other countries off limits? Americans are free to visit China and Saudi Arabia, as well as Iran, Syria and North Korea – so why not Cuba?According to opinion polls, most Americans and, indeed, even Cuban-Americans are now in favour of ending the travel ban and the overwhelming majority of Cubans I have known – of all political stripes, including dissidents – have wanted the US travel ban ended, too.So you'd think it a no-brainer. But you'd be wrong.As this summer opened, it looked as though the United States was going to have a new policy. Two bills were making steady progress through congress, either of which would effectively remove the 米国がキューバに無意味な渡航禁止を終わらせるための動きでストールしている
- Iran and the US: Winding each other up | Editorial
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is making the sane course of action much harder to takeMahmoud Ahmadinejad does not look like a man who is ready to talk about his nuclear programme. Toying with the theory that the attack on the World Trade Centre was an inside job, and doing so blocks away from where it happened, may play big in tribal areas of Pakistan, but it is not designed to win friends and influence where it matters in the United Nations.The annual works outing of the Iranian president to New York began with a series of hints that his government was considering returning to the negotiating table. He released the American hiker Sarah Shourd and told Christiane Amanpour that Iran had a plan to relaunch talks with the US, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany, the so-called P5 Plus One. If such a plan exists, it is not clear how pouring salt in the open wound of Ground Zero will smooth its path. It can only stiffen the nation's resolve to make punitive sanctions work. This is the last thing that should be happening.The US administration is already planning the biggest arms sale in its history to Saudi Arabia, with the explicit intention of containing Iran. This is no more than a continuation of the policies that George W Bush used. It could have a short-term effect but in the long run it will make Iran more dependent on China, which will not serve US interests. It is also difficult to argue that you get more stability in the Middle East by flooding it with arms.The arms deal could also be seen as a way of containing Israel's desire to clear up the ambiguities surrounding Iran's nuclear programme by bombing it. But while Israel and Saudi Arabia are on the same side when it comes to buying US warplanes, they are on opposite sides of the Arab peace initiative, which アフマディネジャドは、アハマディネジャド大統領は、彼の核開発計画について話をする準備ができている人のように見ていないtakeMahmoudはるかに困難アクションのまともなコースを作っている
- Is Hollywood finally over 9/11?
From the angry Fahrenheit 9/11 to the depressing Hamburg Cell, films about September 11 have journeyed through the five stages of grief. Now with weepies Dear John and Remember Me, the movies have come to terms with the defining event of our ageEverything is peachy at the beginning of Dear John, Lasse Hallstrom's new weepie about a soldier's star-crossed romance with a college student. That's because it's spring 2001, a time when the idea of hijacked planes slamming into the twin towers was as far-fetched as a black president or airport body scans. Midway through the film, of course, the planes finally hit, forcing Channing Tatum to leave Amanda Seyfried and do his bit for God and country. That's right, people. In just nine years, the defining event of our age has become the reason why the guy from Step Up can't be with the girl from Mamma Mia!According to Elisabeth Kubler-Ross's book On Death and Dying, the five stages of grief are denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. By and large Hollywood seems to have gone through something similar with regards to 9/11. In the immediate aftermath of the tragedy nobody dared address the event itself; it was too raw, too seismic, too hard to grasp in its entirety. The best the movies could do was to acknowledge its impact, in films like The Guys (in which journalist Sigourney Weaver helped fire captain Anthony LaPaglia pen eulogies for his fallen comrades) or The 25th Hour (which opened with shots of the towers of light that marked the half-year anniversary in 2002).If that was Tinseltown in denial, it took Michael Moore to provide the anger in his 2004 documentary Fahrenheit 9/11, which saw the portly film-maker accusing Bush and his cronies of turning the tragedy to their own advantage. In time, however, thoughts tu 怒っている飛輪海9 / 11は、気のめいるようハンブルクセル、9月11日についての映画に悲しみの5段階を経て旅をしている
- One last win for Obama as Elena Kagan joins the US Supreme Court | Richard Adams
Elena Kagan's confirmation continues the White House's run of victories this year. But from now Obama faces a rougher timeThere have been thunder and lightning outside in Washington DC, but inside the Senate chamber it was plain sailing for Elena Kagan's nomination to join the US Supreme Court.Kagan was comfortably confirmed as an associate justice by a vote of 63 to 37, with five Republicans – Lindsay Graham, Judd Gregg, Richard Lugar, Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe – crossing the aisle to vote for Kagan and just one Democrat – the always disappointing Ben Nelson of Nebraska – voting against.The remarkably trouble-free confirmation process for Kagan means that three of the nine members of the Supreme Court will be women, itself a remarkable shift in the court's make-up since Kagan will be only the fourth woman to sit on the nation's highest bench. And it means that Obama has already successfully nominated as many justices his predecessors George Bush and Bill Clinton: two.Republicans made a half-hearted effort to fight Kagan's nomination, attempting to paint her as anti-gun and anti-military, but couldn't make it stick, in part because the Democratic majority in Senate made it numerically too difficult and because Kagan was replacing a liberal justice, John Paul Stevens, thus not upsetting the balance of the court, which currently has a conservative bent – the most conservative in decades, according to New York Times analysis. As well, the White House did an excellent job guiding its candidate through the process, while Kagan herself didn't put a foot wrong.On top of the successful nominations of Sonia Sotomayor and Kagan, the administration has also had success in passing its healthcare reform and its overhaul of financial regulations, which is a lot of heavy lifting エレナカガンの確認は、今年の勝利のホワイトハウスの実行を継続します
- You can't clone the Ka'bah | Riazat Butt
Islam's holy sites cannot remain unchanged. But the suggestion that a new 'Ka'bah' be constructed in Sinai has ruffled feathersYou wait for a story about Mecca all year and then two come along at once. First it was Egyptian writer and academic Sayyed al-Qimni suggesting Mount Sinai as an affordable religious tourism destination for members of the Abrahamic faiths. Now a Saudi cleric at a Riyadh university has called for the construction of extra floors just for women at the Grand Mosque in Mecca in order to prevent them from mingling with men during tawaf and prayers.I'm no builder but even I realise the latter would require, at the very least, demolition of the Grand Mosque and a temporary shutdown of pilgrimage facilities lasting months, probably years.Qimni's idea – and it is just that – was well-intentioned and he makes several valid points. Not everybody has the finances to perform the hajj, Mount Sinai has special significance in Christianity, Islam and Judaism and the Bedouin have no income. I would also concur with his assertion that there is not much in that neck of the woods except the mount itself, St Catherine's Monastery and the Burning Bush. It might be fruitful, in an economic sense, to develop the area further.Where al-Qimni comes a cropper is his use of the word Ka'bah, which has immediate and almost non-negotiable connotations of a particular granite building in Mecca. The word itself, or so my rudimentary Arabic tells me, means cube or cubic. It could be applied to any similarly-shaped structure but it isn't, because that would be offensive, right?Al-Qimni, who was once described as being more fatal to Islam than Salman Rushdie, is the theological and ideological opposite of Dr Yousuf al-Ahmed, the professor of Islamic jurisprudence at Imam Muhammad イスラム教の聖地をそのまま維持することはできません
- Guardian Daily podcast: Deal carried despite UUP opposition; and Alexander McQueen’s last collection
The Northern Ireland assembly has voted to devolve policing and criminal justice powers to Belfast. But despite the intervention of George Bush, Hillary Clinton and David Cameron, the Ulster Unionist party refused to back the deal. Henry McDonald, our Ireland correspondent, assesses the implications of the vote, while in Westminster, chief political correspondent Nicholas Watt looks at what it means for Britain's Conservatives.As plans to make all dogs carry microchips are announced, we hear the view from people walking their dogs on Wandsworth Common.Fashion editor Jess Cartner-Morley describes the sombre mood in Paris, where Alexander McQueen's last collection was unveiled.And ambulance control worker Suzi Brent - whose blog neenaw.com is now a book, Nee Naw: Real Life Dispatches From Ambulance Control - recounts some of her extraordinary experiences as a 999 call-taker.Jon DennisPhil MaynardTim Maby
北アイルランドアセンブリポリシングとベルファストに刑事司法の権限委譲に投票しています
- Laura Bush: pro abortion and gay marriage | Richard Adams
Only several years after it might have made any difference, Laura Bush publicly supports gay marriage and abortionIf you'd harboured doubts that Laura Bush wasn't the red-blooded conservative type – in the mould of Dick Cheney's wife Lynne, who is possibly even more awe-inspiring than the former vice president – then you were right.Doing the round of TV talkshows, punting her mildly interesting autobiography Spoken from the Heart, Laura Bush last night visited Larry King's CNN chatshow – an ancient US tradition, similar to an incoming British prime minister kissing the Queen's ring. During the interview she makes it clear that she supports gay marriage and – in some circumstances – a woman's right to choose abortion. All of which puts her slightly to the left of the current occupant of the White House. Which is great but ... now you tell us.In the current climate within the Republican party, a presidential candidate's wife with such views would probably be stoned to death. Figuratively speaking. But it does show that even within today's Republican party – assuming you can define Laura Bush as a Republican – there is still a fragment of the sensible right remaining.Anyway, here's the CNN transcript:Larry King: Gay marriage, you tell us in the book that during the 2004 campaign you talked to George about not making it a significant issue. Do you think we should have it?Laura Bush: Well, I think we ought to definitely look at it and debate it. I think there are a lot of people who have trouble coming to terms with that because they see marriage as traditionally between a man and a woman. But I also know that, you know, when couples are committed to each other and love each other, that they ought to have I think the same sort of rights that everyone has.King: So would that わずか数年は何の違いもあるかもしれないが後、ローラブッシュ大統領が公に同性愛者の結婚とabortionIfあなたが疑問をローラブッシュ大統領が精力的に保守的なタイプではなかった温床と思いますサポート - 可能性もいるディックチェイニー副大統領の妻リンの金型内に詳。畏敬の念を元副社長以上の感激は、 - その後、テレビtalkshowsのラウンドをright.Doingされた、彼女の穏やか興味深い自伝を最後の夜ハート、ローラブッシュ大統領から音声パンティングラリーキングのCNNのchatshowを - 古代米の伝統に似て訪問着信英首相女王のリングにキスをする
- Unthinkable? Curb aid in Haiti | Editorial
Long before the earthquake hit, much of Haiti was run not by its government but by NGOsThe role the United States and France played in the impoverishment of Haiti must count among the less glorious achievements of both countries. Successive US presidents, from Ronald Reagan to George Bush, have contributed to the destruction of Haitian agriculture, with the result that Haiti, a natural rice producer, had to import subsidised US rice. This accelerated the flight into the cities, with the cataclysmic consequences witnessed when the earthquake struck. So that when Bill Clinton, now the UN envoy to Haiti, this week questioned whether the aid effort was helping Haiti to become self-sufficient, one had to remind oneself what happened to Haiti under Mr Clinton's presidency. He was, nevertheless, asking the right question. Long before the earthquake hit, much of Haiti was run not by its government but by NGOs. A World Bank study in 2006 counted 10,000 of them alone, the highest per capita concentration in the world. Of those, 800 alone were employed in agriculture, managing $85m of the $91m budgeted for public investment in 2006-07. Disaster relief has merely accelerated this process, and the UN's role has been to co-ordinate 900 NGO groups registered with it. The excuse for circumventing the Haitian government has been either its corruption or its complete absence, but the cure has become worse than the disease. The aid ought to be going to Haitians and their popular movements should decide how to rebuild the country. Foreign agendas for Haiti have not worked.HaitiInternational aid and developmentguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
長い地震が発生する前に、多くのハイチのは政府だがNGOsThe役割は、米国が実行され、フランス、ハイチの貧困化の両方の国の以下の輝かしい成果の間でカウントする必要があります果たした
- Obama gets brickbats and plaudits over global health budget
Hot on the heels of the Gates Foundation $10 billion donation to vaccines and Bill and Melinda's impassioned pleas to governments to increase their aid comes President Obama's budget announcement, which has attracted both praise and blame.Among those who say he is a good guy is the Global Health Council, lauding him for a 9% increase in the Fiscal Year 2011 budget request to Congress. This is their analysis of how the money is to be parcelled out.The Council is happy that there are increases for maternal and child health and malaria and family planning (Obama lifted the Global Gag or Mexico City rule imposed by Bush which prevented any US funds going to overseas organisations including UN agencies which were prepared even to discuss abortion with women). But other organisations are not happy and foremost among the critics is the formidable Jeff Sachs of Columbia University, who has labelled the budget request a Very Big Disappointment. Read his full comments on the Global Aids Alliance site here. Sachs plays the security card and reproaches the Obama administration:If we invest only four percent of the military spending in the development approach it's going to be a very unhappy world and a very dangerous world for us in terms of health, in terms of poverty, in terms of conflict. I expected better of the administration. This President campaigned with wonderful words pointing out that development was a path to national security but he's not following through in real programmatic terms. It seems a shame if scarcity of cash means Aids has to be played off against maternal health, when both urgently need more money. And US donations to the Global Fund for HIV/Aids, TB and Malaria, which has proven to be a very effective way of channelling donor cash into good disease-figh ホットゲイツ財団のかかとを政府にワクチンやビルアンドメリンダの熱烈な嘆願に100億ドルの寄付金の援助を増やすには、両方の称賛と人の彼はいいやつなんだと言うblame.Amongを集めているオバマ大統領の予算案発表は、付属されグローバル衛生審議会は、平成7年議会は2011年予算の概算要求では、9％増加したために。賞賛する
- Polish air crash: Curse of Katyn | Editorial
The symbolism of the spot where the plane crashed, killing the Polish president Lech Kaczynski and the country's entire military leadership, is inescapable. In 1940, in the forests of Katyn, Stalin's secret police executed more than 20,000 Polish officers, wiping out a nation's elite. For decades, Soviet leaders blamed the massacre on the Germans, and even today, 20 years after Mikhail Gorbachev's admission and a week after Vladimir Putin became the first Russian leader to attend the commemoration, some Russians still believe the massacre is a Polish conspiracy.But sometimes symbols impede understanding. The causes of Saturday's crash are likely to be multiple – thick fog, a mechanical problem, a 26-year-old plane which the Polish government should have replaced, the pilot who ignored warnings not to attempt the landing, or indeed the president's insistence on landing. Katyn has become a cursed spot for Poles, but this tragedy has nothing to do with the past.Lech Kaczynski was a polarising figure inside and outside his country. He became president a year after Poland joined the European Union, but preferred dealing with George Bush's America. He lobbied Washington to deploy parts of its missile defence shield in Poland, arguing that this would enhance his country's security against Russia. He encouraged Georgia's and Ukraine's attempts to join Nato. This course of action has happily been jettisoned by Barack Obama, and the ensuing drive to reset relations with Russia has not only produced a new agreement on strategic nuclear missiles but has calmed relations throughout eastern Europe. Frozen conflicts still exist, as do gas pipeline politics and conflicting visions of European security. But the nationalist light of the last decade, which so poisoned regional relations, 飛行機が墜落した地点の象徴は、ポーランド大統領レフカチンスキを殺害し、国全体の軍事指導、避けている
- David Cameron tempts George Bush out of retirement
Intervention by the former US president in the Northern Ireland peace process receives a mixed receptionAre we missing him yet? That is the question posed this morning in the New York Times by Stanley Fish who reminds his readers of his prediction that George W Bush would be missed within a year of leaving office.Fish highlights a billboard poster which pictures a grinning Bush next to a poster: Miss Me Yet?. The billboard in Minnesota is proving a hit on YouTube.That question is also being asked across the Atlantic this morning after our disclosure that the former president interrupted his retirement to intervene in the Northern Ireland peace process. Last Friday Bush telephoned David Cameron to ask him to persuade Sir Reg Empey, the leader of the Ulster Unionist Party, to vote yes today when the Northern Ireland assembly decides whether to devolve policing and criminal justice powers to Belfast.Cameron recently formed an electoral pact with the UUP, the Tories' historic allies in Northern Ireland.Bush's intervention appeared to have failed when the UUP executive decided last night to vote no tonight. Lord Maginnis, the moderate former UUP security spokesman, was on the Today programme this morning saying that the former president doesn't understand the intricacies of policing in Northern Ireland.Our disclosure seems to have stirred the pot. Over at the Spectator's Coffee House Alex Masssie notes the Guardian's interest in Bush. Referring to our old home in Farringdon Road, Massie writes:It says something about the current mood in Farringdon, I think, when George W Bush is presented as the good guy. See, even George W Bush thinks the Tories are dangerous!Massie goes on:I doubt the Guardian has ever previously credited Mr Bush with having any interest in Ulster at all. 北アイルランド和平プロセスの元米大統領が介入混在はまだ行方不明receptionAreを受信する？その質問は、この朝、ニューヨークタイムズ紙にはジョージWブッシュ大統領office.Fishは、写真を看板ポスターのハイライトを離れる1年以内には欠場することが彼の予測の彼の読者を連想させるスタンリーフィッシュが提起されているブッシュ大統領のポスターの横にニヤリ者：Miss Meを未登録ですか？
- Letters: Legal confusion about Iraq advice
The attorney general's legal opinion before the invasion of Iraq in 2003 resulted from a failure to understand the American attitude to law in general, and international law in particular, and a confusion between advice and advocacy.The American legal mind regards law not as a thing that gets applied but as a process that never stops. In the British tradition, and still more in the European tradition, judges (and hence legal advisers) are strongly constrained to make sophisticated choices among possible views of the law, while respecting a structure which we regard as containing the existing state of the law.The American view of international law is familiar to all international lawyers. It regards international law as a thing that is created pragmatically through a dialogue of conflicting international interests. The American legal opinion that Lord Goldsmith heard from White House and state department lawyers, which caused him to refocus his own opinion, will certainly have reflected the idea that international law is what the government thinks it should best be understood to be, on the assumption that other governments are fully entitled to take another view and to work to have that view adopted.The job of an advocate is to win cases. The job of an adviser is to be right. To regard the government as a client is correct when the attorney general is called on to act for the government in litigation. It is not correct when his role is to advise in advance of a serious decision.Philip AllottProfessor emeritus of international public law, Cambridge University• Both the United Nations charter and customary international law did forbid the invasion and occupation of Iraq. The only things that permitted it were the misguided intentions of Bush and Blair and the fact that th 2003年のイラク侵攻前検事総長の法的意見の障害の法律に一般的には米国の態度を理解することから、特に、国際法と助言をadvocacy.Theアメリカの法的な心の混乱の結果だとして法律ではないについてには適用されることを停止することのないプロセスである
- Lula: Brazil still undecided on purchase of fighter jets
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva reaffirmed Friday that his government has not made any final decision regarding the purchase of new fighter jets.
The Ministry of Defense is still scrutinizing the current proposals to modernize the Brazilian Air Force, said the president.
The statement is a response to an article published by the local newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo, which said the government had already decided to buy 36 Rafale fighters from France in an agreement worth 6.2 bil ... ブラジル大統領ルイスイナシオルーラダシルバ大統領金曜日は彼の政府は最終的な決定の新しい戦闘機の購入に関してなされていない再確認した
- State of the union: Obama's reality check
Having a US president who is not George W Bush may come as a relief to the rest of the world, but the legacy Mr Obama inherited has been all too quickly forgotten at homeBarack Obama is a good man, and by the standards of his predecessor, an intellectually honest one. He told a Baptist congregation in Washington recently that there were times when change was so painfully slow that he had to confront his doubts. But Mr Obama's probity has low political currency today. Having a US president who is not George W Bush may come as an immense relief to the rest of the world, but the legacy Mr Obama inherited has been all too quickly forgotten at home. Mr Obama's qualities as the man most Americans want to see talking to them on the television screen in their living rooms will one day come back to the fore. And then, the lack of a mainstream candidate to run against him will trouble the Republican party. But it does not yet.Republicans are content to sit in a solid phalanx of opposition. If senators privately fret about the direction that Tea Party populists could drag their party, they have yet to show it. Mr Obama's failure on healthcare has been to let Republicans define the debate, however wildly and inaccurately. And he has notably failed to challenge them to produce their own reforms, so that he is constantly defending his own goalmouth. While Mr Obama may be right to remind his party that they have the largest majority in decades, and Republicans that they too have a responsibility to govern, his job as president is to make it happen. To become a reforming president, Mr Obama first has to become an effective one.His first state of the union address was a good start to a steelier, grittier, more realistic second year. He talked about the things that matter: job creation a 人ジョージWブッシュ大統領は、世界の残りの部分への救済としては、来るかもしれないレガシー氏はオバマ継承されているすべての早すぎるhomeBarackで、オバマ氏は善良な男であることを忘れ、彼の前任者の基準ではなく、米大統領が持つ知的誠実1
- What could have been
Steve Bell reflects on George W Bush and Tony Blair's decision to go to war in IraqSteve Bell
スティーブベルジョージWブッシュ大統領とブレア首相の決断IraqSteveベルでの戦争に行くに反映
- Israeli judge knocked over by flying shoe
Man on target as he throws trainers at Israel's chief justice Dorit Beinisch during hearing on medical marijuanaA man hurled his trainers at the chief justice of Israel's supreme court today during a hearing on medical marijuana.Dorit Beinisch was hit by the first shoe and knocked to the ground as the second one flew overhead, a witness, Michael Eden, said.The incident appeared to be an isolated one, although there have been rising numbers of threats against the judiciary.A court spokeswoman identified the shoe-thrower as Pinchas Cohen, 52, but said that his motive was unclear.An unnamed court security official said the judiciary had been aware of Cohen since he threatened a judge in 2006. The official said Cohen's beef with the judiciary stemmed from a dispute in family court.The attack did not appear linked to the hearing, where residents of a northern town were asking the court to shut down an authorised producer of medical marijuana.Shai Meir, a spokesman for the marijuana growers, said two of Beinisch's fellow judges dropped to the ground to assist her after she was hit while guards lunged at the shoe-thrower and tackled him.The attack brought to mind a similar show-throwing attack in 2008 against the then US president, George Bush, in Iraq, which he dodged.Israelguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
ターゲットマンとして彼はイスラエルの最高裁判所長官リットBeinischで医療marijuanaA男性、イスラエルの最高裁判所の裁判長は今日の医療marijuana.Dorit Beinisch上の聴聞会で彼のトレーナーに放り出さ上での公聴会でのトレーナーをスローする最初の靴が衝突したとするノック2つ目として地上のオーバーヘッド、孤立した1つのように見えた、judiciary.A裁判所の広報担当者に対する脅威の数の上昇があるされている証人は、マイケルエデンsaid.The事件を飛んでいく靴ピンカスズーカーマンコーエン、52として投げ識別が、それは彼の動機unclear.Anされた名前の裁判所はセキュリティ関係者は以来、彼は2006年に裁判官脅かさ司法れてコーエンを認識していたと述べた
- Analysis: Obama's Buck-stopping Goes Only So Far
Analysis: Obama Says Buck Stops With Him, But He Still Pulls Discussion Back To Days Of Bush
分析：オバマ彼とバックを停止言うが、それでもに迫る議論ブッシュ大統領の10日に戻るために
- A fight against the odds
In 2001, George W Bush declared the United States was at war against al-Qaeda. President Barack Obama also claims the country's main enemy is al-Qaeda. Al-Qaeda's shock troops in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia and North Africa, based on the best intelligence estimates available, add up to about 2,100 fighters; the US has approximately 1.4 million active duty men and women under arms. - Nick Turse and Tom Engelhardt 2001年、ジョージWブッシュ大統領らとの戦争の時で、国際テロ組織アルカイダは、米国を宣言した
- Patrick Cockburn: Haiti destabilised before quake
The US-run aid effort for Haiti is beginning to look chillingly similar to the criminally slow and disorganised US government support for New Orleans after it was devastated by hurricane Katrina in 2005. Five years ago President Bush... ハイチの米ランの援助活動後、2005年のハリケーンカトリーナによって大きな被害を受けた冷えには刑事とニューオーリンズのdisorganised、米国政府のサポートが遅いようにし始めている
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