In a hasty and excessively provocative manner, some in the American media are starting to speak of Obama as a second Jimmy Carter and predict that he will serve only one term.

(a) Eyewitness reports of indiscriminate and disproportionate force used by government troops to quell demonstrations in Andijan in May 2005 resulting in the death of many civilians

Finally, as far as policy is concerned, we Britons have deluded ourselves to think that our system of government increasingly shown to be unrepresentative, inefficient, and over centralized could survive with a little tinkering here and there.