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The Unstarvable BeastCAMBRIDGE – As the world watches the United States grapple with its fiscal future, the contours of the battle reflect larger social and philosophical divisions that are likely to play out in various guises around the world in the coming decades.
In recent years, however, as the political battle shifted to the deteriorating economy, the public accepted more direct anti-Tudjman critiques, allowing parliamentary opposition to follow.
Each political battle to secure more resources for a transitional crisis-fighting fund leads to further constraints on governments’ power to act in times of crisis.
But it was a battle, not a war.
There is a widespread misperception in the developed world that we have already won the battle against HIV/AIDS.
Hamas’s battle with these radicals, who detonated suicide bombs and killed six Hamas security men during the mosque fight, is just beginning.
The battle of wills between Sarkozy and the street is still very much open.
If I had to bet, I would wager that the government will end up winning this battle.
But Sarkozy is unlikely to derive long-term political benefit from his modest success, and he will face an uphill battle to be re-elected.
And while Russia is beefing up its armed forces and introducing new battle tanks from an old rusting base, it does not have the economic and industrial might to sustain any long-term war effort – and its leaders know this.
In the United States, history textbooks focus on the colonists’ heroic battle for independence in the Revolutionary War, not on the genocide carried out against their new country’s indigenous population.
So the battle between left and right that we were so much accustomed to has become more sophisticated.
But it will be a difficult battle, as America’s departure is likely to strengthen Turkey’s hand further.
Much of the shotgun’s ammunition comes from the United States, which perceives keeping the military in power as being necessary for the short-term battle against the new Taliban groups.
The obstinate battle cry of the Bush administration in Iraq has now won out in Obama’s planned surge of an additional 30,000 troops in Afghanistan.
In poor countries like Nigeria, the battle against AIDS demands an array of medical personnel, clinics, and medicines that simply do not exist.
Generating and harnessing top level political commitment to engage societies ravaged by HIV/AIDS is critical to fighting this battle successfully.
It is not wild-eyed extremism to insist that every conversation with an African leader should discuss what they are doing to win the battle against HIV/AIDS.
That’s where the battle still rages in the West.
The longer Egypt’s current disarray persists, the more its political elites will lose the battle for the hearts and minds of a population whose basic aspirations are summed up by four well-founded demands: bread, dignity, social justice, and democracy.
Relations between Taiwan and mainland China have been fairly peaceful since the 1995-1996 Taiwan Strait Crisis, when then-US President Bill Clinton sent an American aircraft-carrier battle group into the strait.
But did the battle between pragmatists and radicals end there?
Hollande wants to turn the presidential election into a referendum on Sarkozy, who, given his unpopularity, is seeking to frame the battle in terms of values and experience.
It’s the kind of question that tends to bring out the bureaucrat in even the most direct of communicators, as one feels obliged to explain the complexity of the challenges confronting humanity: how no imperative can be singled out over other goals; how the struggle for peace, the fight against poverty, and the battle to eradicate disease must all be waged side by side; and so on – mind-numbingly.
So the battle is not lost.
This is why Syria’s civil war is now a geopolitical battle for regional domination, with multiple fractures along sectarian lines.
Though the battle is completely symmetric, the public assessment of it is bafflingly lopsided, especially in countries with financially conservative populations.
Fayyad’s strategy for international recognition of a Palestinian state is to fight a legal battle against Israel in the United Nations Security Council and other international bodies.
To prevent that fate, he must battle the sprawling bureaucracy and the State's financial/ industrial empire.
NEW YORK – Many of the eulogies to Lee Kuan Yew, the long-time prime minister of Singapore who died in March, singled out his successful battle against corruption.
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