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Signaling America's resolve to prevail is essential, as Gates notes, because as long as Afghans and others in the region believe the U.S. military's presence in Afghanistan is finite, they'll hedge their bets. And hedged bets right now work in the Taliban's favor because, as General Stanley McChrystal has warned, it is the insurgents who have the momentum. (See "Multimedia: The War in Afghanistan Up Close...
...hard to tell if the skeptics are right. China is like the proverbial elephant being described by blind men: anyone can say anything depending on which part they happen to be touching. Jim O'Neill, head of global economic research at Goldman Sachs, is dismissive of the doubters. "I've seen similar sorts of stories about 20 times this year," O'Neill said last week during an interview on Bloomberg TV. "These are generally written by people that obviously just don't follow closely or study China." He maintained that, if anything, China's economic strength is being underestimated...
...buoyant longer than expected as the short-sellers are forced to cover their anti-China bets and the unbelievers finally come around and belatedly take long positions. For the sake of 1.3 billion Chinese and the rest of us, let's hope it's Jim O'Neill that's right, rather than Jim Chanos...
...Islamic Republic. Furthermore, the Iranian President's rhetoric was unusually conciliatory towards the U.S. and its allies. "Today, the conditions are ripe for nuclear cooperation at international levels," he concluded. The proposed agreement in the Vienna talks, he declared, showed that the country was "moving in the right direction." (See pictures of IAEA director Mohamed ElBaradei at work...
...also reportedly critical, saying the proposal as it stood was "neither logical nor legal." Parliament members began to publicly bash the Vienna deal. One member stated there is no guarantee in the proposed deal that the West "will fulfill their commitments" in the nuclear talks and that "Iran is right to distrust them." Another member argued that the "media commotion" in the West was wrong in reporting that "Iran has submitted to the idea of ending uranium enrichment." A commentary in the conservative online news site Qods challenged President Ahmadinejad's interpretation of events: "To what extent has each...