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US elections: four key questions Nasim Zehra The writer is an Islamabad-based security analyst The 56th US elections are being held against the backdrop of an unprecedented global upheaval. Deteriorating global security, a decades-old free-market economic system in an acute crisis and the multiple threats to the human race from rapid environmental degradation have together triggered this global upheaval. This poses the unprecedented threat of global anarchy and perhaps even the beginning of the end of human civilisation. This anarchy can only be averted by a responsible consensus-based global management. Given this there are two scores US becomes a key player in such an effort. One, because Washington has the institutional, diplomatic and financial outreach capacity to play the lead role in crafting such a global consensus. Two, because Washington's security, economic and environmental policies combined with a ...

John Sidney McCain III (born August 29, 1936) is the senior United States Senator from Arizona and presidential nominee of the Republican Party in the 2008 presidential election. McCain graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1958. He became a naval aviator, flying ground-attack aircraft from aircraft carriers. During the Vietnam War, he nearly lost his life in the 1967 USS Forrestal fire. In October 1967 while on a bombing mission over Hanoi, he was shot down, badly injured, and captured by the North Vietnamese. He was a prisoner of war until 1973, experiencing episodes of torture and refusing an out-of-sequence early repatriation offer; his war wounds left him with lifelong physical limitations. He retired from the Navy as a captain in 1981, moved to Arizona, and entered politics. Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1982, he served two terms, and was then elected to the U.S. Senate in 1986, winning re-election easily in 1992, 1998, and 2004. While generally adhering to c...

Barack Hussein Obama II, born August 4, 1961, is the junior United States Senator from Illinois and presidential nominee of the Democratic Party in the 2008 general election. Obama is the first African American to be nominated by a major political party for president. A graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he served as president of the Harvard Law Review, Obama worked as a community organizer and practiced as a civil rights attorney before serving three terms in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004. He taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. Following an unsuccessful bid for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2000, he announced his campaign for the U.S. Senate in January 2003. After a primary victory in March 2004, Obama delivered the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in July 2004. He was elected to the Senate in November 2004 with 70% of the vote. As a member of the Democratic minori...