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...State of Iraq's Army "When will they be ready?" is the wrong question [May 12]. The U.S. pays for the service of Iraqi soldiers and gets a weak return for low pay and very little inspiration. An army can become strong only when it is instilled with a sense of pride. And that cannot grow while the U.S. calls the shots. It can grow only when the U.S. summons the courage to let go of Iraq. Paul Sievers, MUNICH, GERMANY...
Heady words, indeed. Yet what looked like a transformation turned out to be a fluke - or so argues Robert Kagan, in the wryly titled The Return of History and the End of Dreams. Like Fukuyama, Kagan served in the U.S. State Department (as a speech writer for Secretary of State George Shultz); he now lives in Brussels and is a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Best known for the 2003 success Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order, Kagan recently made news as a major influence behind John McCain's most...
...disappointed. While Kagan recognizes al-Qaeda-inspired terrorism as an ever present threat, he believes that modernity will ultimately triumph in the Middle East, and he dismisses the tenets of radical Islam as "a hopeless dream." As Kagan sees it, we live in "an age of divergence," with a return of great-power nationalism more akin to 19th century Europe than to the end of the cold war. He is under no illusions about the fundamental differences between the U.S. and its increasingly formidable rivals, Russia and China, whose "rulers believe in the virtues of a strong central government...
...property. Mortgage debt as a percentage of the country's disposable income stood at 125% in 2006, compared to 103% in the U.S. and 71% in Germany. One reason is that British homeowners came to fervently believe that bricks and mortar almost inevitably reward investors with a juicy return. After all, the FTSE 100 share index of Britain's biggest firms rose just 2.7% in the 10 years to May, while the average house price shot up 178%, according to Nationwide. That increase produced "a massive reservoir of equity," says Lowe, making British homes "not just a shelter, but increasingly...
Depending on where the senator's tumor is located, Kennedy could expect to return to near-normal functioning. If the lesion is in a location where surgeons can remove it easily, then he has a good chance of controlling the cancer with additional chemotherapy and radiation. "I have patients 20 and 30 years out from diagnosis, and they are functioning normally and doing well," says Brem. "We hope that Senator Kennedy becomes one of them...