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So far, Obama’s handling of the Snowden affair shows that he places more stock in the logic of security than in adherence to principle.
Ironically, by turning the affair into a spy thriller, Putin has helped the US to salvage its reputation – or at least to deflect some of the attention from the NSA’s surveillance programs.
But now that public figures – especially those deemed to be “of interest” to intelligence agencies – are susceptible to being watched three-dimensionally, the chances of being compromised are far higher than they were in the days of the UK’s Profumo affair, which brought down a British defense secretary in the early 1960’s.
In other words, we must acknowledge that two Islams are locked in a fight to the death, and that because the battlefield is the planet and the war threatens values that the West embraces, the fight is not solely the Muslims’ affair.
The best that can be said is that Europe will no longer be able to delay making the choice that the Greek affair has laid bare.
As for Johnson, reports are circulating that his wife has kicked him out over an affair.
In principle, credit ratings are based on statistical models of past defaults; in practice, however, with few national defaults having actually occurred, sovereign ratings are often a subjective affair.
To boot, we are told that government is so clever that it might even make money on the whole affair.
“Engagement” is the key word in this affair.
“This affair was not as complicated as people made it out to be later,” he said.
As the US contemplated a possible nuclear attack on China, Australian Prime Minister Robert Menzies quietly told US President Dwight Eisenhower, “If there is a war over Taiwan, it is your affair and not ours.”
While poor law enforcement needs urgent attention, counter-terrorism is never solely a military affair.
The damage to Russia’s economic growth prospects from the Yukos affair may yet prove temporary, barring a repeat performance with other companies.
But whether the Yukos affair proves to be an isolated case, as the Kremlin insists, depends on a reading of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s motives.
A less nihilistic view is that the Yukos affair suggests above all a series of improvisations by Putin rather than a coherent agenda.
Much evidence points to the affair originating not in a systematic nationalization project, but rather in the Kremlin’s perception that Khodorkovsky aimed to use his wealth to privatize the Russian state itself.
If so, the damage caused by the Yukos affair should be minimal.
Indeed, at this point the only action more harmful than the Yukos affair would be another Yukos affair.
The US election is now a volatile affair.
The ongoing Trump-Russia scandal ranks among the country’s most famous – including the Teapot Dome affair of the 1920s, the collapse of the energy giant Enron in the early 2000s, and more recently Bernie Madoff’s Wall Street Ponzi scheme – and it is all the more menacing for involving a hostile power.
The defeat of the Democrats in the mid-term elections in 1994, followed by the Monica Lewinsky affair, hampered the effectiveness of one of America’s most energetic and gifted Presidents.
Much of the TV-6 affair, indeed, was about money.
In the Arab media, Jewish conspiracies constitute the single most popular explanation for everything from the September 11 th terrorist attacks to the Monica Lewinsky affair during the Clinton presidency (Miss Lewinsky being the Jewish spy who infiltrates the White House).
From 1993 to 2001 a series of abrasive encounters poisoned the atmosphere: the forced boarding of a Chinese merchant ship (wrongly suspected of carrying chemical warfare components to Iran) in the Arabian Gulf;US efforts to block China's bid to host the 2000 Olympics; escalating tensions over Taiwan; the Wen Ho Lee affair (where China was falsely implicated in the theft of American nuclear secrets); the accidental bombing of China's embassy by US warplanes during the Kosovo war; and the mid-air collision of a US spy plane and a Chinese jet fighter last year.
The Snowden affair highlights three elements of this: US-Russia relations, US influence in South America, and US relations with Europe.
The Kremlin’s handling of the affair is indicative of the tense state of US-Russia relations.
Moreover, the Snowden affair reinforces the perception that the US is losing its sway in South America.
Assad wants nothing more than to see this affair forgotten – and the proponents of dialogue think that they can give him what he wants in the hope of breaking Syria’s alliance with Iran.
It will not be a palace affair, replete with a “patriotic,” television-driven mobilization of the masses against terrorists and the Western nemesis.
One of the greatest obstacles to the spread of democracy is the widely held view that religion and democracy are inimical to each other: to adopt democracy means to banish God and religion from the public sphere and make it strictly a private affair.
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