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American Airstrikes...create Risks, Especially If Our Intelligence There Is Rusty. The Crucial Step, And The One We Should Apply Diplomatic Pressure To Try To Achieve, Is For Maliki To Step Back And Share Power With Sunnis While Accepting Decentralization Of Government. If Maliki Does All That, It May Still Be Possible To Save Iraq. Without That, Airstrikes Would Be A Further Waste In A Land In Which We've Already Squandered Far, Far Too Much.

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The Conflict In Darfur Could Escalate To Where We're Seeing 100,000 Victims Per Month

There Is An Element Of Anger Among Women Who've Been Raped. There's Certainly A Major Element Of Humiliation. But It Really Does Seem Like A Medical Condition Of Shock And Horror.