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...long-term reforms—Ridge should begin his work immediately. But while Ridge works toward long-term solutions, he should steer his agency away from immediate policy decisions, which are better left to experienced groups like FEMA. With threat of another terrorist catastrophe growing every minute, we cannot depend on a hastily constructed agency led by a security outsider to avert disaster...
...just here but also abroad, is a task of unprecedented difficulty and scope. In a world of failed states and separatist movements, it is not always clear who the terrorists are. Our efforts to maintain an international coalition and to eliminate the constituency for terrorism depend heavily on our retaining the moral high ground; the U.S. government must therefore define its mission carefully, so as to mount the most effective and most appropriate campaign against those who threaten our citizens...
...TIME: Are you all about female empowerment? Kyoko: We want to give women a hint of what it's like to think another way. Take relationships. In Japan, many women are with a man just for the sake of being with a man. They depend on the man to complete themselves. But who knows when the man will leave? This kind of behavior is unthinkable for us. We get fan letters from women saying we've changed their lives, now they're finally able to get a divorce or whatever. We derive energy from this, like radio waves...
Thus, if the United States were determined to do so, it could entirely eliminate its dependence on oil from the Persian Gulf, albeit at the expense of making other net importers of petroleum—like France, Germany, Japan and South Korea—more dependent on Persian Gulf oil. Of course, saying that the U.S. can do this and that the U.S. should do this are two different things. While it would certainly be preferable not to have to depend on such a volatile region for a vital part of our economic livelihood, there’s the unsettling...
While any effort, they said, would include increased aid, it would also have take into account payment structures which depend on loans and loan forgiveness, as at the law school, business school and medical school...