February 5, 2010

A Bad Spell of Big Power Behavior

Rami Khouri, Jordan Times

These have been a revealing but worrying few days for the exercise of power by some of the world's strongest countries.

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TAGGED: Tony Blair, Hillary Clinton, Iraq, Iran, China

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