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...been vociferous about his preference for a marriage with A-B, but the decision isn't his to make. Instead, his company's future hinges on shareholders, who should soon vote on SABMiller's bid?or on an expected counteroffer from A-B. For the first time, the fate of a Chinese company hangs on overseas shareholders...
...they aimed to do no more than bring afternoon tea or the metric system to those in less fortunate lands.) Stripped of all its justifications, imperialism means rule by someone else. In the 21st century, it is implausible to expect an occupied people will accept such a fate happily...
...Americans do not like the idea that their soldiers may be hated, believing?correctly?that U.S. military might has helped liberate millions of innocents. But gratitude for such generosity is often short-lived. People want to control their own fate. Of course, it makes sense for a nation like Iraq, emerging from a dictatorship, to seek help from others. Generous people?and none are more generous than Americans?will respond in kind. But the idea that, unasked, Americans or anyone else can go into a foreign land, turn it upside down, stick around, and then be thanked for their trouble...
What has surprisingly been given minimal exposure, in comparison, is the fate of the other party in this war—that is, the Iraqis that American troops were sent in to defeat and/or liberate. That is, until recently...
Rumsfeld may be full of just the kind of “high zest” that Owen decries, but both of them understood the power of imagery. With the New York Times calling for his resignation, Washington is buzzing about Donald Rumsfeld’s fate. Whatever it is, it will be better than Wilfred Owen’s. An English officer, he wrote those lines while recovering from wounds in 1917. Once healed, he returned to the front, 25 years old, to be killed on the battlefield one week before Armistice...