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Mr. Karzai has been disappointing as a nation-builder, has tolerated corrupt officials and family members, and can be arrogant and crudely nationalistic.
The Karzai Fiasco 2010
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Mr. Karzai has been disappointing as a nation-builder, has tolerated corrupt officials and family members, and can be arrogant and crudely nationalistic.
The Karzai Fiasco 2010
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Mr. Karzai has been disappointing as a nation-builder, has tolerated corrupt officials and family members, and can be arrogant and crudely nationalistic.
The Karzai Fiasco 2010
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Right now he's making all the promises that we've heard other politicians make (including GWB -- the empathetic, bi-partisan, live-and-let-live one, who was not a nation-builder).
Obama Campaign Has Raised Over $4 Million -- Since Polls Closed Yesterday! 2009
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"The Hindu nation-builder," Sri Aurobindo wrote "shall not seek to superimpose his own ideals and methods on his Mohamedan brother, nor shall the Mohamedan, the Buddhist, or the Christian, seek to obliterate the essential characteristics of the Hindu culture and Hindu race."
Our horizon spreads beyond one nation Tusar N Mohapatra 2009
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"The Hindu nation-builder," Sri Aurobindo wrote "shall not seek to superimpose his own ideals and methods on his Mohamedan brother, nor shall the Mohamedan, the Buddhist, or the Christian, seek to obliterate the essential characteristics of the Hindu culture and Hindu race."
Archive 2009-04-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2009
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"The Hindu nation-builder," Sri Aurobindo wrote "shall not seek to superimpose his own ideals and methods on his Mohamedan brother, nor shall the Mohamedan, the Buddhist, or the Christian, seek to obliterate the essential characteristics of the Hindu culture and Hindu race."
Sri Aurobindo favored an eclectic, basically Vedantic Hinduism as 'the basis of the future world-religion' Tusar N Mohapatra 2009
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"The Hindu nation-builder," Sri Aurobindo wrote "shall not seek to superimpose his own ideals and methods on his Mohamedan brother, nor shall the Mohamedan, the Buddhist, or the Christian, seek to obliterate the essential characteristics of the Hindu culture and Hindu race."
Archive 2009-05-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2009
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He sees himself as a "war fighter," not a "nation-builder," say his friends.
No Good Defense 2008
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"I am not a nation-builder," he added in a rare statement of specificity.
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