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...other NATO countries have begun to grapple with the urgency of 21st century threats or the sacrifices needed to deal with them. The avoidance of these topics allows European politicians to shirk tough questions and deprives them of the opportunity to educate their people about the security and humanitarian stakes in Afghanistan and beyond--stakes that will need to be embraced if collective security arrangements are to remain more than notional...
...have any form of early-warning system for the world economy," he says. "We have environmental catastrophe, but we have no capacity to plan, finance and act globally. We have failed states and terrorism but we've got no organizational ability to deal with reconstruction, stability, peacekeeping and humanitarian work. And we've got a growing popular participation in the big issues of the day, but we don't have any forum for dialogue that even brings the different faiths of the world together...
...roughly 750 Spanish troops now deployed in Afghanistan, though at the recent NATO summit in Bucharest he maintained that current levels were sufficient. Among the largely pacificist Spanish population, support for military participation in combat is weak (over 50% of Spaniards support withdrawing their troops from Afghanistan altogether). But humanitarian and peace-keeping missions are another story: a 2005 poll by the Madrid-based Center for Sociological Research puts public support for those military efforts at more than 90%. The figure of a pregnant woman - "a woman in full womanhood," as Montaño puts it - only drives home that...
...tide may turn in favor of the allies: after growing slightly for seven years, the North Korean economy contracted by 1.1% in 2006, according to South Korea's central bank, and a bad harvest has worsened chronic food shortages, say North Korea watchers. Lee has pledged to maintain humanitarian aid to the North. But if Pyongyang's plight continues to worsen, Lee's tourniquet on other potentially vital economic arteries could force the Kim regime to heel...
Elie Wiesel Nobel laureate, humanitarian, activist, Holocaust survivor and author of more than 40 books, including Night...