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...Bilmes argues in her new book “The Three Trillion Dollar War,” with economist and Nobel laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz, this price tag does not take into account the long-term and macroeconomic costs of the war. Her estimate includes decades of future veterans’ compensation payouts; oil price hikes as a result of supply disruption; and the loss not only to families but to the economy when productive Americans are injured or die young...
...More specifically, Klaus’ account sheds light on an oft-ignored dynamic of the war: Kurdish nationalism. In the American fixation with sorting out Sunni and Shia, we often ignore this other group entangled in the political future of Iraq...
...another high wall that blocked their escape route in education.I couldn’t help but feel sorry for these students, as it seems unlikely that Kaplan will open a branch in Ramallah anytime soon. While I expect that Harvard’s international admissions standards take into account their hardship—they stop short of setting a minimum required score on the Test of English as a Foreign Language, for instance—qualified applicants from troubled environments cannot hope for anything resembling the leniency shown to Ben-Eze, who apparently was guaranteed admission so long...
...country in 2005 and rose to prominence in the opposition Liberal Party. This August, Ignatieff wrote an article, “Getting Iraq Wrong,” in which he recanted his support for the war. It was one of the first times an intellectual had publicly held himself accountable for his stance on the Iraq war. But the article, a lengthy rumination on the nature of judgment, rubbed many people the wrong way. “As a former denizen of Harvard, I’ve had to learn that a sense of reality doesn’t always...
Yesterday, in China's Sichuan province, at least eight bodies were brought to a Buddhist monastery in Aba prefecture, allegedly shot dead by Chinese riot control police, according to an eyewitness account quoted by Radio Free Asia. The escalating confrontation in and around Tibet is a nightmare for China's top leadership, but one, some diplomats believe, that could not have taken anyone in the central government completely by surprise. It pits the leadership in Beijing against its domestic opponents - who include not only Tibetan dissidents, but also separatist groups in the heavily Muslim region of Xinjiang, as well...