Did Allawi go to Yale, too?

It seems like he has similar influences to his diplomacy. He's "getting tough" on other Arabs. This is like almost any US president and most leaders in the Western world for the past 50 years have acted and how the other dictators empowered by the West have acted in the past. He's accused Iran of "arming and encouraging" the militia and sending insurgents across the border. He restored the death penalty. There are signs that "[Allawi] fears losing his tenuous grip on the situation in Iraq." It's all horrible, but I can't help but feel like it fits the pattern here. They prop up a dictatorship that cators to the elite, doesn't care to represent the majority of the people, and they act surprised when there are problems with insurgents? Smells like bullshit to me.
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I don't need graphs and numbers to tell me the job market is still going to shit, but of course it doesn't hurt. Well, maybe seeing it does. It hurts a lot of people.