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...until she has the institutions to do so. She could forego checks and balances, allow business as usual and relieve pressure from former warlords. But, says former chairman of the U.N. experts panel, Art Blundell, "we know where that kind of business as usual leads. Among countries recovering from conflict, more than half slip back into it within a decade. Why? The bad guys get the resources...
What's the future? A strong economy, with a population that has all of its basic needs met. All of our institutions restored. Liberia can become a post-conflict success story, along the lines of Rwanda and Mozambique. That's our target. Ten years, and we should be where Rwanda is today. [It's part of a pattern] across the continent. Africa is growing equal to or better than all the other regions. Whereas we had military rule and dictatorships, today we have 18 or 19 functioning democracies. Look at how we have gone from [a stance of] non-interference...
...fell, technological advances were lost for centuries, and Europe descended into the Dark Ages. The rise and fall of economic powers since the dawn of modern capitalism in the 17th century has been a different story. There have been shifts in relative power, and some have led to violent conflict, but living standards have continued to improve over time, even in lands that lost the crown of most powerful - Britain being the most recent example...
...built-in conflict of interest that causes some patient advocates to bristle. In effect, they contend, doctors double dip - earning money from procedures as well as the overall operation of the hospital, of which they are shareholders. That provides plenty of incentive for physicians, who typically also work part-time at the local community nonprofit hospital, to recommend their easy-to-treat patients go across town to have procedures done at the private hospital where the doctors are investors. The House bill would address this issue by closing a loophole that has allowed doctors to send patients to hospitals they...
...sought to remake whole parts of the world under the banner of American moral authority, Obama brings a more conservative, cynical view to the question of when nations should act on idealistic impulses. At a press conference on Friday, the President was asked how he resolves the theoretical conflict between respecting state sovereignty and intervening in defense of the universal rights of oppressed people. "The threshold at which international intervention is appropriate I think has to be very high," Obama said. "There has to be strong international outrage at what's taking place. It's not always going...