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DAVID NYHAN GUSHED on the Globe Op-Ed page about him recently. Last April, political reporter Robin Toner drenched him with favorable images in The New York Times Magazine. Leslie Gelb wrote in the New York Times last week that folks in New Hampshire were "riveted by his intensity." And New York magazine national affairs writer Joe Klein apologized for many of Kerrey's faults last week, adding that he is "passionate" and "genuine...
...happens, Japan is already asking the U.S. to cut its government deficit, spend more on education and so on, in a trade negotiation known as the Structural Impediments Initiative. Leslie Gelb of the New York Times points out that these are "the very steps any American with half a brain knows we ought to be taking in our own self-interest." Trouble is, the Structural Impediments negotiations are halfhearted on both sides (America is asking that the Japanese do things like stop working on Saturdays). In a notorious 1989 book titled The Japan That Can Say No, a popular Japanese...
...Bush was so focused on winning," Gelb said. "It's very clear that he gave very little thought to any post-war policy...
...Gelb said that in order to achieve any new order, there must be a change in priorities in foreign policy. He said he believed the United States should not only focus on its old enemy, Iraq, but also keep watch over the activities of Syria and Israel...
...Gelb concluded that the United States should adopt a greater domestic focus than in the past, cautioning the audience that victories in foreign policy are often escapes for leaders from domestic troubles...