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...Iraq. To put that in perspective, the current U.S. goal is to train a further 200,000 Iraqis by October 1 - in other words, the NATO contribution will amount to 0.5 percent of the total. That's a little like the geopolitical equivalent of a Hallmark good-luck greeting card...
...poll shows that credit-card company Visa is barely identified as American. Even among those consumers who said they were inclined to boycott U.S. brands, only a few included Visa on the list. (American Express, by contrast, was strongly identified as being American.) Still, even companies that believe and practice a localized strategy aren't immune to political backlash. McDonald's, for example, adapts its menus to local taste; its restaurants serve Kiwi burgers in New Zealand and wine in France. But that hasn't prevented the fast-food chain from being a favorite target of French protesters. And General...
...that Kim has once again played his nuclear card?pulling out of talks aimed at disarmament, bragging that he has the Bomb?the strangulation question is front and center. Should North Korea's trade and economic ties, most importantly those with China and South Korea, the North's largest trading partners and charitable benefactors, be choked off to pressure a country that is already among the most economically backward in the world...
...affairs in Lebanon. There are certainly economic benefits for Syria to maintain control over its economically dynamic neighbor whose progress and integration into the world economy puts Syria's own decrepit economy to shame. But Lebanon's primary importance to Damascus is its value as a strategic trump card. The organizing principle of Syrian foreign policy over the past four decades has been to find ways of pressuring Israel to return the Golan Heights, occupied by Israel since the war of 1967. Syria's presence in Lebanon, and particularly its support for the Iran-backed Hezbollah militia, became...
...added that the committee did not want to turn students into vigilante enforcers of the swipe card policy...