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The city of Basra, 20 miles inland on the Euphrates, was occupied on November 22 nd , after the defeat of more determined opposition.
As enemy opposition remained light, the advance continued until Townshend's army encountered a Turkish force of equal strength entrenched on both banks of the Tigris at Kut.Crossing the river, the British attacked from the north on September 28 th , routing the Turks, who lost 5,300 men and all of their artillery.
Milosevic's Divide and Mis-ruleBELGRADE: Slobodan Milosevic may be the most despised man in Serbia, but leaders of the country's opposition can barely hide their hatred for each other.
Indeed, as Vuk Draskovic, the leader of the largest opposition group, tried to hijack last week's massive protest of 100,000 in Belgrade (a rally he had previously shunned), security men from Draskovic's Serbian Renewal Movement and Zoran Djindjic's Democratic Party openly scuffled.
The feuds and incompetence of the Serbian opposition are the main reasons why Milosevic still rules.
But the vanity, greed, and perpetual scheming of the opposition's leaders has left them easy prey for Milosevic's schemes of divide-and-misrule.
The irony of last Thursday's opposition rally is that it took place in front of Belgrade's federal parliament, for it is in parliament and not the streets that Milosevic can be challenged.
In this regard, it is a pity that Montenegro's pro-Western president Milo Djukanovic has chosen a separatist path, rather than help Serbia's opposition.
Almost all Serb opposition leaders agree with Djukanovic's complaint that the federal government is illegitimate because of this state of affairs.
But if he were to work with Serbia's opposition (by pledging, say, to postpone Montenegro's bid for independence if a legitimate prime minister is named), and focus public protests on installing a new premier, Yugoslavia could rid itself of Milosevic in a rather elegant way.
Since the Constitution of Yugoslavia gives little power to the president, a new premier from Montenegro could adopt the opposition's agenda.
Djukanovic is a perfect figure to lead the opposition because, as a Montenegin, he poses no threat to the career ambitions within Serbia of Draskovic, Djindjic, and retired General Momcilo Perisic.
But Djukanovic keeps the Serbian opposition at a distance.
So many opposition politicians hope to get rid of Milosevic through street protests.
That part of the opposition led by Draskovic also wants elections, but doesn't reject the idea of an interim government.
This, Draskovic says, should result from a compromise between Milosevic and the opposition.
Unless Montenegro's Djukanovic can be prevailed upon to work with the opposition in order to strip Milosevic of power by stripping him of his puppet prime minister, elections and compromises are the way to a democratic Serbia.
In this way, even without joining into a coalition, opposition parties could get a majority of seats in parliament.
But an equally fundamental division – one that has contributed as much to the ongoing insurrection as sectarian strife and opposition to the American-led military occupation – is the widening gap between Iraq’s rich and poor.
None of this bodes well for a country whose parliament has already been diminished, after these three parties, during their eight years forming a coalition government, marginalized the opposition and failed to build up new leadership cadres.
The SPD now faces a choice: at its special party congress this weekend, its leaders must decide whether to join yet another grand coalition government that promises more of the same, or move into opposition, probably triggering new elections.
At the same time, Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of the opposition Labour Party, managed to appear competent and confident.
Similarly, in 1997, former French President Jacques Chirac’s decision to call an early parliamentary election resulted in large electoral gains for opposition parties on the left.
But French opposition was also predictable because, for over a decade now, France has veered away from Europe and now finds itself increasingly isolated.
In 1977, he and more than 200 other dissidents founded the human-rights movement Charter 77, which quickly established itself as a leading opposition force.
But there should be no doubt that he is a man of the regime – a realist and moderate member of the Islamic Republic’s political elite – not a representative of the opposition.
The reformers could not overcome conservative opposition, while the radicals could not defeat the domestic economic realities wrought by their foreign and nuclear policies.
At the same time, however, many Americans cherish national myths, no less foundational in their way, which are in direct opposition to the idea of a nation of laws.
Alexey Navalny, the main organizer and Russia’s de facto opposition leader, was arrested in dramatic fashion, dragged out of a rally in Moscow by police.
The political backlash that ensued from the bail-in triggered a blame game between the government and the opposition parties, and even between politicians and regulators, with all blaming the European Union and its banking regulations.
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