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...with them, for leaving a toddler with a 5-year-old. It doesn't matter. The driver is still hauled off to prison. He is held because we are Americans, and the U.S. has signed an accord with the Shah known by Americans as the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA), and by Iranians as the capitulation treaty. In 1964, when it was signed, the Ayatullah Khomeini railed against the legal inequities of the agreement, which gave American military immunity on Iranian soil: "If someone runs over a dog belonging to an American, he will be prosecuted," he thundered...
...childish belief that foreign-born solutions will work for the region. The West has spent decades hoping for and plotting a neat trajectory of Middle Eastern modernization. But whether vested in peace treaties or the Shah's imported pomp, those plans have never quite worked out. Not a SOFA agreement, not the Shah's speechifying about modernization, not a party in desert tents stocked with marble baths and champagne could sustain Jimmy Carter's mirage of an Iran that was "an island of security in a troubled region." Those brave, early hopes for Afghanistan and Egypt, too, quickly turned...
Nonetheless, the move enraged other European lawmakers, who said the Parliament was merely pontificating. "The European Parliament has thrown its toys out of the pram and put a crucial counter-terrorism data-sharing agreement with the U.S.A. into jeopardy," said Timothy Kirkhope, a lawmaker from the British Conservative Party. "It is not fair that the U.S.'s efforts to tackle terrorist financing have become embroiled in an argument between E.U. institutions." European and U.S. officials will almost certainly need to craft a different kind of pact now. While Washington could cut individual deals with the banking centers of Belgium...
...democratic system that allowed the Parliament to have a say on the issue is only two months old. Under the E.U.'s Lisbon Treaty, which came into force in December, Parliament members now decide jointly with European governments on legal affairs. And by blocking the SWIFT agreement, they proved that they were not shy about exercising their new powers. Dutch lawmaker Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, who led the Parliament's attack on the deal, said if the Obama Administration had proposed such a data-sharing arrangement in the U.S., "we all know what the U.S. Congress would...
These doubts come as the U.S. continues to throw its weight behind the campaign. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano signed an agreement for enhanced cooperation in the Mexican capital this week, declaring that "the collaboration between Mexico and the United States has never been stronger." The latest accord follows a hike in funding for the so-called Mérida Initiative to beef up Mexican security forces. In total, the U.S. has pledged $1.6 billion worth of equipment and training for its neighbor, including eight Black Hawk and 13 Bell helicopters for Mexico's army and federal police...