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...Boot, the Wall Street Journal's editorial-features editor, argues that the U.S. should not fear engaging in small wars to improve the lot of those in lands less happy than ours. "Yes, there is a danger of imperial overstretch and hubris," writes Boot, "but there is an equal, if not greater, danger of undercommitment and lack of confidence." And now comes Bush, setting out, in the way that colonial powers once did, the steps the Palestinians must take before the U.S. will recognize a Palestinian state: find new leaders, write a constitution, establish a market economy and more...
...Boot, the Wall Street Journal's editorial-features editor, argues that the U.S. should not fear engaging in small wars to improve the lot of those in lands less happy than ours. "Yes, there is a danger of imperial overstretch and hubris," writes Boot, "but there is an equal, if not greater, danger of undercommitment and lack of confidence." And now comes Bush, setting out, in the way that colonial powers once did, the steps the Palestinians must take before the U.S. will recognize a Palestinian state: find new leaders, write a constitution, establish a market economy and more...
Developed states should support NEPAD's strides toward good governance, but they also have to offer increased trade access to African products. That includes, painfully, reducing their own agricultural subsidies - not raising them, as the U.S. has done. Developed countries' financial support for their own farm products is today equal to sub-Saharan Africa's combined economic output. It is folly, as well as unfair, for the developed North to protect its inefficient industries at the expense of the more competitive industries of the South. And to encourage more responsible and accountable government, the G-8 should also insist that...
...indeed at war, and we must act accordingly with equal measures of audacity and precaution,” Moynihan said...
...Duterte, who graduated as a lawyer in 1972?the year Marcos proclaimed martial law?rose to prominence against this backdrop of vicious mayhem. As a city prosecutor he made his reputation by targeting military and rebel abuses with equal fervor. The son of a former provincial governor, Duterte says his father taught him that elected officials must serve the greater good no matter what it takes, like a father protecting and disciplining his family. And Duterte was fearless: even as a teenager, he refused to back down from fights?or whippings from his mother?despite being a self-confessed skinny...