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Humanitarian aid does little to help the U.S.'s medium-term goals in Gaza: curtailing the flow of arms to Hamas and boosting the Palestinian Authority there. And in fact, the lack of progress on those goals undermines the good that the aid itself can achieve. "In order for the...
Ignoring those contradictions might be acceptable in furtherance of the simple moral goal of helping thousands of people in need - or more cynically, in pursuit of the p.r. win that might come from being seen to do so. But much of the money pledged at Sharm el-Sheikh may never...
The mobilization to bail out Eastern Europe has begun in earnest. According to MarketWatch, "The World Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the European Investment Bank issued a joint pledge Friday to provide up to 24.5 billion euros ($31.2 billion) in aid to support Eastern Europe's...
"This is the time we priests need to be renewing our pledge to celibacy, not questioning it." - Responding to claims that celibate commitment is to blame for clerical sexual abuse New York Times, Sept. 5, 2003
The Senate is expected to vote on the measure next week and send it to Obama, who will probably sign it. That way he can turn his attention to what the White House says it is really focused on - Obama's first budget, for fiscal 2010, the outline of which...