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...market drop echoed around the world. In Tokyo, Noriko Hama, a senior staffer at the Mitsubishi Research Institute, warned that "it could be very hard to stop" the Wall Street plunge from sending ripples through foreign stock exchanges. Tokyo's volatile Nikkei index fell 445.02 points last Thursday, its sharpest drop since June. The index rebounded 320.97 points on Friday to close at 35,116.02, down 93.33 for the week...
...Hama represents Assad's difficulty in forging a unified state out of people with several ethnicities, traditions and cultures...
...result--the entire demolition of a major city with the massacre of what Amnesty Internation estimated to be 10 to 25 thousand people--is derived from what Friedman labels "Hama Rules...
...Hama Rules are the only ones that apply in the Middle East, but the U.S. cannot understand them. Players obeying the Hama Rules orchestrated the 1983 suicide truck bombing attack on U.S. marines stationed in Beirut. Even Israel follows the rules--it invited Phalangist militia into the Lebanese towns of Sabra and Shatila and failed to stop the massacre of up to 1000 people...
...personal crisis for me. The Israel I had met on the outskirst of Beirut was not the heroic Israel I had been taught to identify with. It was an Israel that talked about purity of arms' to itself, but in the real world had learned to play by Hama Rules, like everyone else in the neighborhood...