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...from pork for Arizona, and he's been a principled gadfly objecting to the pork-making process. For example, McCain has consistently voted against Army Corps of Engineers water projects, Capitol Hill's most popular form of pork; he and Democrat Russell Feingold have fought a quixotic battle to reform the dysfunctional Corps and the haphazard process by which its projects are funded. McCain has even argued that water pork contributed to the catastrophe of Hurricane Katrina, another argument I have made. But that fealty to principle has required him to vote against funding for the Everglades and new levees...
...hostile environment are corruption, a capricious legal system and local suspicion of foreign companies, which are often viewed as carpetbaggers rather than investment partners. Not that Indonesia is a complete pariah to outside investors. Foreign direct investment (FDI) has increased in recent years as the economy has improved. But reform is required, economists say, if Indonesia is to become more competitive regionally and globally. China in 2007 attracted seven times more FDI than Indonesia, India almost twice as much. Indonesia "has to be at par with what its neighbors are doing," says Ifzal Ali, chief economist at the Asian Development...
...recruitment and in obtaining funding." She laments the lack of a coherent strategy. "Militaries are blunt instruments; they are not good at counterinsurgency," she says. "The police would be a far more effective instrument, but there is no coordination between the military and the civilian government, so political reform and economic development--essential elements to any counterinsurgency--are not part of the equation...
Sounds great. But who will get the development money that all of Washington now seems keen to send east? Christine Fair, a Pakistan expert with the Rand Corp. in Washington, argues that without a reformer in charge in Islamabad, programs such as Biden-Lugar will be "throwing good money after bad." The problems, she says, are systemic. Improving training for police officers won't help until their wages are boosted to make them less vulnerable to bribes--but that would require reforming police pay, which in turn would call for extensive civil-service reform. "That's the problem with Pakistan...
...place on the ticket, she made it clear that her son was not the only one heading off to war. "You can't blink," she said. "You have to be wired in a way, of being so committed to the mission, the mission that we're on, reform of this country and victory in the war - you can't blink...