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...same time, international confidence in the government's ability to pay its $12 trillion debt is tenuous, and Obama has yet to take any clear steps, beyond rhetoric, to reassure investors. His 2010 budget, announced last February, projected medium-term deficits that even Obama's aides agree are unsustainable. And by most accounts, his health care reform package, if it passes, is unlikely to yield the clear long-term savings that Obama once suggested...
...Fayyad have been astonishingly successful at fulfilling the road-map obligations to reform their security forces, resulting in a near cessation of violence in or from the West Bank. Indeed, the most notable occurrence in the past few years was something that did not occur: when Israel invaded Gaza last January, the West Bank did not erupt. Fayyad has instituted financial transparency, lured talented technocrats into his Cabinet and launched smart economic initiatives. Growth for this year is expected to be about 7%. (See pictures of heartbreak in the Middle East...
These accomplishments provide a foundation for what could be a new American approach. Last summer, Fayyad announced that - instead of waiting for political negotiations to reach a final agreement on a Palestinian state - he would simply work to build the institutions of such a state right away. His aim was to create conditions that within two years would convince the world, including the Israelis, that the entity should be granted statehood. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has proposed a similar approach. He wants to provide both sides with security by building the Palestinian economy, and he has lifted some...
...Merkel's government could take longer to assess. A parliamentary commission is set to investigate the air strike next week, and Germany's current Defense Minister, Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, one of the country's most popular politicians, has already been forced into an embarrassing repudiation of his statement last month that the air strike had been "militarily appropriate." (Read "Much Work Ahead for German Chancellor Merkel...
...Warren sought to clear up other matters that have emerged amid the Ugandan bill controversy. He denied knowing Scott Lively, the conservative California preacher whose writings about a global gay agenda to dominate the world have inspired much of Uganda's anti-gay movement. (Lively denounced the Uganda bill last week, saying it went...