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March 19th, 2009
02:40 pm - Politics this week (The Economist)
A teenager in Germany shot and killed 15 people as he went on the rampage with a pistol at his former school near Stuttgart. He engaged police in a shoot-out at a car dealership and then apparently shot himself. In America a man went on a gun spree in Alabama, killing five relations and five bystanders before shooting himself.
As South Korea and America conducted annual joint military exercises, North Korea complained bitterly and gave warning of the risk of a nuclear war.
A suicide-bombing in the south of Sri Lanka, which killed at least 15 people, was blamed on the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
Two suicide-bombings in Iraq killed at least 57 people, showing that the jihadist insurgency, though much weakened, is by no means over. The first attack hit a police academy in Baghdad; the second, three days later, struck at a meeting of tribal leaders in Abu Ghraib, a district to the city’s west, where they were attending a reconciliation conference.
President Nicolas Sarkozy confirmed that France would return to NATO’s integrated military command, 43 years after Charles de Gaulle pulled the country out. A week before parliament votes on the move, he argued that it would not compromise France’s strategic independence, but make it “stronger and more influential”. A poll suggested that 52% in France approved.
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