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...project signs so proudly proclaim, but getting them to like Americans is not going to win the war. Success will only come when Afghans are willing to pay taxes to a government that is able to provide those services itself. Otherwise, the foreign endeavor in Afghanistan is destined to fail - when the donor spigot is turned off, local goodwill is bound to fade. Or worse, as in the case near Jalalabad, magnanimous gestures can all too easily be turned into an opportunity for grievance...
...political campaign, albeit a violent one: "If an election campaign spent all of its effort attacking the opposition and none figuring out which districts were undecided, which were most worthy of competing for, and what specific messages were necessary to sway them, the campaign would be destined to fail ... pollsters and strategists [the equivalent of military intelligence staff] must constantly explore the local levels, including voters' grievances, leanings, loyalties, and activities. Experienced campaign strategists understand that losing even one or two key districts can mean overall defeat." After all, as the old axiom has it, war is the continuation...
...shocked and appalled that Bernanke was named Person of the Year. In my opinion, he set up the devaluation of the U.S. dollar and rewarded bad behavior and business practices of corporations that should have been left to fail...
...information about Abdulmutallab was conclusive. For instance, a father's complaining that his son had joined the jihadist cause in Yemen doesn't automatically point to a threat to the homeland. Obama has vowed to improve intelligence sharing, but some experts are skeptical that the system can ever be fail-safe. "The next time, we may not have this many data points," says Bruce Hoffman, a counterterrorism expert at Georgetown University. "It may never be this good again...
...CDOs), onto government-watched public exchanges. CDS contracts are widely blamed for the demise of insurer AIG. Johnson says that making the CDS, CDO and other markets like them more transparent would limit the ability of financial executives to take the extreme risks that can cause their firms to fail when markets go awry...