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...remains a vibrant democracy subject to the rule of law and standards of morality. As your article noted, "Israeli law permits soldiers to disobey clearly illegal commands." The Israeli legal and moral systems stand in stark contrast to the policies of the Palestinian leadership, which not only fails to rein in the terrorists but also continues to praise barbaric suicide bombers. Andrew M. Upton New York City...
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's apparent decision to come clean on his secret nuclear-weapons program could prove to be a major achievement in the world's bid to rein in rogue nuclear nations. But it has also shown how far there still is to go. Since 1980, inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have visited Libya, a signatory of the 1970 Nonproliferation Treaty, and routinely reported that they found no evidence of a nuclear-weapons program, although they did stress that they could not guarantee their information was complete. Last week IAEA inspectors visited nine nuclear sites...
...remains a vibrant democracy subject to the rule of law and standards of morality. As your article noted, "Israeli law permits soldiers to disobey clearly illegal commands." The Israeli legal and moral systems stand in stark contrast to the policies of the Palestinian leadership, which not only fails to rein in the terrorists but also continues to praise barbaric suicide bombers. ANDREW M. UPTON New York City...
...some of India's problems are being addressed, others are getting worse. Although politicians have been promising for a decade to rein in the government's free-spending habits, the country's finances continue to deteriorate. Due to high agricultural subsidies, losses incurred by state-owned enterprises and an oversized bureaucracy, India's fiscal deficit has expanded alarmingly; the combined state- and central-government deficits have grown from 7.6% of GDP in 1996 to nearly 10% this year. The Indian government's rising deficits "are not sustainable," warns Takahira Ogawa of Standard & Poor's rating agency. Although interest rates...
...stubborn refusal to bend, he has extended the Pentagon's clout on all kinds of nonmilitary matters, from civil liberties at home to the conduct of diplomacy abroad. His power has at times verged on the absolute, and even some White House officials wonder whether anyone can rein him in. Yet for all his apparent certainty, he found a way, in his exquisite fashion, to make clear that he was under no illusions about the limits of America's new global war on terrorism. As a result, his campaign to transform the military is just beginning...