European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 24, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                June 2007 stars and stripes Page 27 opinion what newspapers Are saying at Home the following editorial excerpts Are selected from a Cross Section of newspapers throughout the United the editorials Are provided by the associated press and other stateside surge verdicts complicated Chicago Tribune the surge is a the surge is a come it is Likely that youll be hearing both verdicts from analysts and your and its Likely that evidence in Iraq will support either Conlu that because Success and failure hinge on definitions and expectations How much better or worse is Baghdad not to mention rough statistics and anecdotes that Tell at Best Only a Sliver of the those who see Success will probably Point to subsiding violence in some parts of Bagh dad and the undeniably positive alliances with sunni tribesmen in Anbar province against those who discern failure will find rising numbers of sectarian kill suicide car bombings and an iraqi parliament frustratingly unable or unwilling to v set aside sectarian agendas to build a mini Mally functioning there Are few things More perilous than predicting events in but absent a huge change in it seems Likely that no matter what the statistics and september will bring political pressure for another shift in american the surge has shown that More troops can bring a measure of Security to some neighbourhoods in but it has also shown the limits of such forces in the absence of effective iraqi political immigration uniformity a must Herald West earlier this following a visit to Capitol Hill by president there was renewed enthusiasm for an immigration re form Bill that had been abandoned by Senate leaders a couple of weeks if you believe Senate majority Leader Harry and Republican minority Leader Mitch the comprehensive legislation May yet be revived and adopted by the fourth of july one of the better planks of the current immigration Bill is that it would require All through the department of Homeland to do a much better Job of verifying immigration status of potential this part wont unless everyone plays by the same unless everyone obeys the same set of otherwise Well have More of the confusion and unfruitful rhetoric and a Hodgepodge of Legal wrangling with no clearly defined president Bush has stood up on this in the face of opposition from his own he has done so because he realizes immigration Reform is an Issue of vital importance for National for economic both now and into the he knows also that the longer it the longer it hangs in the wind to be thrashed about on talk radio and in blog land the More complicated and divisive it will be this country does not need any More of it cannot afford candid camera empowers voters los Angeles times in its quest to spice up this months presidential debates in new can repeatedly let members of the audience take the microphone and ask now its planning to let them take the in a pair of debates to be held in july and sep the questions will be posed not by a panel of journalists but by youtube users who record their queries As video its a but one that could yield some potent prickly City by Scott Stantis debates held this Early in the Campaign season suffer from at least three fundamental they dont draw much of an audience this years initial debates have each attracted less than 3 million the questions tend to reflect what journalists Are interested and the format encourages candidates to Jab and weave rather than engage in real the youtube input could help on All these depending on How can filters the youtube questions also could pro vide a reasonably Good proxy for what mat ters most to the grass and if Given free you tubers would be uniquely positioned to put the screws to presidential aspirants because they can paste in clips of the candidates doing or saying things they just As soon although you tubers clearly know How to use their medium to score political Points witness How a supporter of Barack Obama turned apples famous 1984 commercial into an attack on Hillary Clinton Treyve never taken part in an honest goodness presidential can and youtube Are offering the Public a tool its never had before the ability to confront politicians directly with not just Fra a key safety ingredient South Bend Tribune Dieth Ylene glycol is a poisonous solvent among other in some anti it has the Sweet taste and consistency of Glycerine and provides a deadly just last the food and drug administration said it had no reason to believe the fraudulent Glycerine had gotten or would get into the United but this the Agency found Dieth Ylene Gly col in toothpaste sold in the United it is to the fads credit that it identified the tainted the Agency earlier had urged manufacturers to be especially vigilant is checking imported Glycerine for Dieth Ylene and now Consumers them selves have been asked to take a role by Dis carding products in a High risk raising the warning level of the right thing to but consumer vigilance never will be especially in a global marketplace that draws Many thousands of product ingredients from Halfway around the if the food safety bureaucracy int Ade quate to get the Job then it should be expanded and Congress should make sure that the Fra has the clout and presence necessary to perform at the High est level of National no Confidence sums it up the Montrose Daify press a no Confidence vote for Alberto Gonzales is Long but our Congress just  do in members of Congress  even agree to debate a nonbinding Resolution of no Confidence in our embattled attorney Gen the majority of with the help of a few democrats and one ind Epen sunk the despite their criticism of who is suspected of firing nine attorneys for purely political Rea Gonzales defenders contend the fuss it self is whats purely it is True attorneys serve at the plea sure of the president and that George Bush administration was hardly the first to fire but it seems just Ais certain several of the most recent slate of Termi nees were targeted for reasons other than poor perform As Gonzales has done Little during his tenure but erode american liberties and steadily and Vance unwarranted increases in executive in the latest he has done nothing but obfuscate through convenient memory some of which make one wonder whether he even knows How to do his to five members of his department have most recently Mike a Fella whom some of the ousted attorneys accuse of trying to compel their a vote of no Confidence is the least of what Gonzales not All symbolism is Duke Case had Many victims the Rock among the most frustrating aspects of the Duke Lacrosse Case was that the weakness of the prosecutions Case was evident practically from the if Durham District attorney Mike Nifong had been More re strained in pursuing the three Young men might not have been a travesty of Justice might have been avoided Nifong might still be District during the hearing on his disbarment this continued to suggest that something illegal had occurred at the his obstinacy and his apparent inability to accept the fallout from his actions undoubtedly played against him in the the three Young men were the real Vic Tims in this but they were not the Only Duke which reached an Undis closed financial settlement with the saw its Campus torn apart by this i Flamma Case and its reputation sullied As a re sult of its overreaction to the Justice also was a victim in this done in by what has aptly been described by prosecutors As Nifong tragic Rush to language skills a talking Point the Kentucky fort Mitchell More than 200 million chinese elementary and secondary students Are studying in a required course in All primary just american Stu dents Are studying As american companies fight to retain their dominant spot in Tough global the language imbalance could prove to be As big an economic Issue As the Trade Iqbal but besides impeding the Lack of foreign language skills adds to cultural ignorance and hinders communication just As the faces strained relations around the the seriousness and growing implications of americas pitiful foreign Lan Guage program is evidenced by the Bush administrations 2006 creation of the National Security language the program has sent More than million into schools for targeted the languages the Bush administration says Are critical to National Security and eco nomic development russian and bind enrol less than 1 percent of High school schools will respond to higher state requirements and increased parental demand for foreign language but theres a critical role for american businesses As offering targeted financial support for teacher recruitment and curriculum and testing arid language enrichment programs would be a great Way to help grow a bilingual and culturally Sensi Tive work Fema firestorm is justified the Watertown Daify times the Federal emergency management Agency says it paid too much to Gulf coast Hurricane victims about the Agency has been trying to recover the Money from people it says should not have been according to this a Federal judge in new or leans told the Agency to Stop hounding storm victims for Money until it can better explain to people what they Mary said should aggressively pursue cases of fraud and misuse of but i think they have to keep that Effort separate from harassing tax hardworking storm survivors to pay Back Money Fema either put in their hands or encouraged them to that is certainly people on the Gulf coast Are having a hard enough time ing and recovering from hurricanes Rita and the last thing they need is the government demanding they return Money the Agency paid them after the even if Fema overpaid did the Agency inform them that the Money have to be returned would it have made a difference people in distress Are going to use funds provided them by Pri vate agencies or caring that is what the Money is it is unconscionable for the government to return Many months or years after a natural disaster and ask a storm victim to give Back the