But no Bush refuses to take responsibility for the economy, just as his administration fails to take responsibility for its failures in Iraq.

Reforms must aim at making grade school and high school teachers accountable.

In fact, it is these tabloids, responding to market pressure, that have started to take on responsibility as public watchdogs.

If and when the Union lifts the embargo, Europe will be refusing to take responsibility for the catastrophe that may be approaching.

In Asia, people increasingly realize that sharing in global prosperity also means sharing responsibility for global peace and development.

Recently, a congregation of African church leaders convened in the Senegalese island of Gorée and urged their people to assess their share of responsibility for the slave trade.

Anything short of this would permanently taint Pakistan s leadership and impede all attempts at political reconciliation.

The new transatlantic formula must be greater say in decision making in exchange for a greater share of responsibility.

The third hurdle is the danger that the Extraordinary Chambers will be regarded as the end rather than the beginning of a long term search for accountability and legal reform.

Instead, almost across the board in his administration, he chose as advisors people akin to Ken Lay.

The food shortage could also jeopardize the return of refugees in places such as Afghanistan and Liberia. Her Government could not continue its disproportionately high share of food aid programming it called on other countries to rise to the challenge.

By effectively abandoning conditionality, the EU will be rewarding the most intransigent hard liners in Serbia that is, the very people who have opposed the arrest of Mladic for years. With the ICTY s closure just one year away, there is a risk that Mladic will never be held accountable.

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Holding Charities Accountable

The Buck Stops at the Top

With the Palestinians future at stake not to mention the future of Israel and the Middle East no one can say if Hamas is up to the task.

If similarly shameful disclosures multiply, as I believe they will, let us at least hope that official apologies and condemnations may finally give way to wider, more genuine accountability and reform.

But don't blame Bush.

Who was in charge? The president.

We can all make a decision to come together and pick up the balls and run with the balls that governments have dropped.

We Russians obviously bear the most responsibility for the USSR's collapse, but America should also be called to account.

To meet today's threats, troops must be able to take individual responsibility and initiative, and need to be trained to react resourcefully and at a moment's notice.

Bush bears much responsibility for this.

Of course the Arabs are not free of blame either.

The economics profession bears part of the blame for this.

But this is Bush's war, and he ought to be held responsible for it.

Rather than taking responsibility for the deteriorating security situation (as evidenced by regular suicide bomb attacks) and the increasing Talibanization of the tribal areas, Musharraf has tried to blame the judiciary and media.

Although there have been numerous initiatives to investigate its war guilt, especially its occupation of China, there has not yet been an official effort comparable to what the Germans undertook to take collective responsibility for their war crimes.

At the same time, the best way to help bring about a more liberal Russia one that promises to be more stable at home and more responsible abroad is by working with it.

The first step is transparency the second is accountability.

Environmental concerns have become a blame game.

Today, this responsibility extends to more than 180 countries.

The American media have not emerged unscathed. Why did CBS refuse to release information of vital concern to the public?

When these policies fail, citizens hold mayors responsible.

But more important than assessing blame is correcting mistakes.

Instead, Bush should plan on a two year window to give the Iraqi government as strong a chance as possible before the Americans leave, while emphasizing that Iraqis will thereafter be responsible for their own security and political salvation.

Wouldn t they be more likely to read pundits with better track records? If so, pundits might adapt to accountability by showing more humility, and political debate might begin to sound less shrill.

What we started to do was to realize that we had to take charge and reform ourselves.

Public accountability, government transparency, and official integrity remain largely slogans.

Only the state can be made responsible here.

I know as well that this often seems like an overwhelming level of responsibility for people to assume.

The ADB argues that other agencies are responsible for social development.

Bush had a responsibility for the behavior of the people working for him.

Most rebellions, after all, are moral as well as political.

Carrying the burden