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...tough: "Are you going to tell me that as long as we have not eliminated poverty, we're going to keep selling children like objects and making them suffer? Poverty encourages this kind of activity, yes. But failing to put children in school encourages it too. Failing to punish those who traffic children encourages...
...last meal and last words but also a last photo op. Other moves to deprive him of the attention he craves--forbidding jailhouse interviews, limiting phone calls--are futile in light of the telecast. Cynthia Ferrell Ashwood, who lost her sister, hopes for a boycott, believing it would punish McVeigh more. "I would like him to die very much alone, which is how my sister died. It won't hurt him for me to watch him die. It will just please...
...issues that require a great deal of Sino-U.S. cooperation - North Korea, for example. South Korea's President Kim Dae Jung's "Sunshine Policy" of rapprochement with North Korea requires the support of China, the U.S., Russia and Japan. If China and the U.S. look for ways to punish each other and they stop cooperating on North Korea, that could mean the failure of President Kim's policy. Taiwan is also a good example. If the U.S. changes its posture on defending Taiwan because of this incident, then it raises questions of whether Washington is acting on the basis...
...Kidd-class destroyers, which are immediately available. That would also allow Washington to maintain the leverage of the Aegis decision, and in any case, the construction of the Arleigh-Burke-class destroyers that carry the system would take another eight years. But with a strong domestic political inclination to punish Beijing for the Hainan standoff, there's obviously a temptation to immediately authorize the Aegis sale...
...that those bent on retaliating may consider is the Taiwan arms sale. Speculation had been that Washington would stop short of giving Taiwan the Aegis at this stage. But there's now speculation that there will be a stronger push to approve that sale immediately, as a way to punish China. That, however, would probably undercut the very pro-Western forces we want to support in China. Canceling President Bush's planned state visit to Beijing in the fall? Well, the reason he scheduled that visit was presumably because he judged it in the best interests...