Embattled Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid warned yesterday that he would move against those who ignore him, after police and lawmakers disregarded his decision to fire the national police chief.
Suroyo Bimantoro defied Wahid’ s dismissal by attending a ceremony promoting police officers in Jakarta yesterday.
He late met with senior legislators who accused Wahid of violating the constitution by firing the chief without consuiting parliament. More than 100 senior police generals signed a statement hacking Bimantoro, the state news agency reported.
Bimantoro said he would only step down if parliament asked him to, which is unlikely to happen.
Wahid’ s spokesman Yahya Staguf said that firing Bimantoro was constitutional and that the police chief had been meddling in politics.
He said Bimantoro was trying to create a rift between the President and Vice-president, so that many lawmakers wanted to replace Wahid if they oust him
A. a cabinet member
B. the national police chief
C. a lawmaker
D. a Muslim scholar
Shortly after September 11th, President Bush’s father observed that just as Pearl Harbor awakened this country from the notion that we could somehow avoid the call of duty to defend freedom in Europe and Asia in World War Two, so, too, should this most recent surprise attack erase the concept in some quarters that America can somehow go it alone in the fight against terrorism or in anything else for that matter.
But America’s allies have begun to wonder whether that is the lesson that has been learned--or whether the Afghanistan campaign’s apparent success shows that unilateralism works just fine. The United States, that argument goes, is so dominant that it can largely afford to go it alone.
It is true that no nation since Rome has loomed so large above the others, but even Rome eventually collapsed. Only a decade ago, the conventional wisdom lamented an America in decline. Bestseller lists featured books that described America’s fall. Jap
A. American allies began to appreciate unilateralism
B. Americans come to get over some misconceptions
C. the U.S. became the largest power since Rome
D. Americans can achieve its objectives unilaterally
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