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It used to be that conservatives and moderates and liberals could all work together in Congress.
On the left are the scores for liberals; on the right, conservatives; in the middle, moderates.
Stereotypes/Countertypes! That's right, Stereotypes/Countertypes! Unfortunately, this is a show for the moderates of Red State America who refuse to part with the old prejudices of yore especially when it comes to crime.
The EU needs to tell Iran that unless it releases the British hostages and moderates its nuclear ambitions, it will receive no export guarantees.
Meanwhile, the relative moderates who have remained committed to contesting official policies by democratic means are sidelined and mocked.
And, having lured these moderates, PiS has kept them, by offering what previous governments have rejected.
As in Egypt, Morocco, and Tunisia, Islamist moderates in the Palestinian territories need to be engaged as a legitimate political force.
But the United States, European governments, and Israel should take this opportunity to engage Hamas’s moderates and test their flexibility.
In addition to providing a better life for Iran’s 70 million people, political change there would weaken both Hamas and Hezbollah, thereby strengthening the relative position of moderates in the West Bank and Gaza and much improving the prospects for peace between Israel and the Palestinians.
Everything happening there was both predictable and predicted: a proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran, increasing sectarianism and ethnic segregation, the polarization of extremes and the silencing of moderates, de-stabilization of neighboring countries, infiltration by terrorist groups, and a bloodbath from which the country could take decades to recover.
Despite the Court’s traditional conservatism on social issues, it would surely reject the key provisions of the proposed abortion law – a prospect that would empower PiS moderates to rein in their extremist colleagues.
When radical right-wing fantasies are once again off-limits, PiS moderates may finally be able to refocus the party on the issues that most Poles want it to pursue: Improving the country’s standard of living by ensuring its economic catch-up with the West.
But the routing of the ICU, which was led by relative moderates, backfired badly, by radicalizing the group’s youth wing, al-Shabaab.
With the defeat of Lugar, and the simultaneous exit of the last Republican moderates, like Senator Olympia Snowe of Maine, who were prepared to put national interests ahead of partisanship, the Senate is unlikely to produce the 60 votes needed to ratify further US-Russia arms-control treaties, should they be negotiated.
The irony is that real change could come about only from a civil war won by moderates.
But the Palestinians are not engaged in a civil war pitting moderates versus extremists.
Perhaps the best way to help Muslims is not to attempt to transplant institutions from Indonesia to the Middle East, or to give aid to “American-approved” moderates, but simply to listen more closely to the voices of Indonesian Islam.
Meanwhile, Trump’s appeal among Republicans is across the board: moderates and conservatives, college-educated, Evangelicals, men and women.
Conversely, if Bush cannot come up with enough Republican moderates in the US Senate – they are actually already there, probably -- and in the US House of Representatives, the letdown and resentment in Mexico (as well as everywhere in Central America, the Caribbean, Peru, Ecuador and Colombia) will be immense.
Not only does one negotiate with the illegitimate “moderates,” but it is precisely because of their legitimacy deficit that the moderates are forced to be unyielding on core issues, lest the radicals label them treasonous.
“Leveling the battlefield” by providing weapons to moderates is, at best, a prescription for prolonged violence, with even more civilian casualties and refugees.
Late this spring, something changed, and within a few weeks moderates made dramatic public advances.
Compounding the problem is the well-known advantage that extremists have over moderates, by virtue of yelling the loudest.
These moderates think that Iran's government should press America for extradition of Iraq-based members of the Mujahdin-e Khalq Organization (MKO), as well as its total dismantling.
In the early 1970’s, moderates gained by engineering a rapprochement with the US, capped by Nixon’s famous visit to China in 1972.
With moderates being marginalized, the long-term effect will be to undermine democratization efforts in the region.
Political violence has rampaged since the war – not only against Serbs but against political moderates.
Certainly, the failure of the peace process in the 1990’s, followed by the coming of the second Intifada, appears to have encouraged the radicalization of Israel’s extremes while discouraging moderates.
But the conflict is also between militants and moderates, fueled by neighboring rulers seeking to defend their interests and increase their influence.
But when democracy takes root, as in tolerant and secular Indonesia, the clash between moderates and extremists can be better managed.
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