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What, then, can be done to rein in countries like North Korea? Pyongyang is especially prickly and dangerous, and already holds 10 million residents in the South Korean capital as virtual hostages. Seoul is only 30 miles from the border and has always lived under the threat of immediate destruction from North Korean firepower. Says a senior U.S. military officer: "[It is] within easy and rapid range of perhaps 10,000 artillery tubes with a 57-second flight time. That can cause World War II--size casualties." And that's without nuclear weapons. Now, unless the U.S. goes back...
...there that will? The Bush Administration insists there is, and that cooperation among the Western allies will ultimately rein in North Korea and deter future nuclear wannabes like Iran. Yet that may be more hope than reality. Says Delpech: "We're now facing two very grave cases of proliferation at the same time, and we have to use this moment of condemnation to pull the [established world] powers together." But considering how long it took for the Security Council to ban the sale of luxury goods to Pyongyang, time does not appear to be on our side. [This article contains...
...Says Bennett: "Malaki's under a lot of pressure to rein in the militias and clean up the Ministry of Interior. He's got pressure from the Americans and the Sunni bloc in Parliament. Disbanding a corrupt unit of the police force looks good and proactive and decisive. He's making the right noises. The question is, how far can he really go? His main political support comes from the Sadr movement, which is connected to the militia that is doing a lot of the sectarian killing and infiltrating the police. He can only crack down on this...
...spearheaded large humanitarian relief efforts in nearby Sierra Leone and the Congo, showing that it can coordinate such operations. That was, after all, why the Security Council called for 23,000 peacekeepers to be sent to Darfur. The situation in Sudan demands action. Its government has consistently refused to rein in the Janjaweed militias it supports, while its insistence on centralization prevents any meaningful peace deal. Given that it took over 20 years, and as many as two million deaths, before the government agreed to a peace deal in Sudan’s south, a future without UN intervention does...
...Rosemary Perlmeter, president of the non-profit Dallas-based Coalition of Effective Charters (CEC), has proposed giving more state money to successful charter schools while enacting more stringent laws to rein in underperforming ones. Traditional public schools receive $800 per student per year for "facility fees" and campus improvements, Perlmeter points out, but charter schools receive none. "Public schools that are consistently performing at high levels should be supported and nurtured whether they are charter or traditional," Perlmeter says. "If they're underperforming or irresponsibly using government funds, they should be closed...