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...Read "China at 60: The Road to Prosperity...
Several mid-level regional officials have been suspended for corruption since Zuma came to power. But Zuma has missed other chances to pursue the guilty. In May, Transport Minister S'bu Ndebele was found to have accepted a $125,000 Mercedes from a road-construction group that had more than $50 million in contracts with the department. Though Ndebele handed the car back, along with two cows, Zuma told him he had no need to. In June, an auditor general's report accused 2,000 senior civil servants of rigging contracts worth $75 million to themselves or relatives between...
Lost to this newfound pragmatism, though, is the idealistic rhetoric of the Bush era, which advocated building up infrastructure, the economy, and civil society alongside a vibrant democracy as the road to perpetual peace. Obama’s strategy also calls for a dedicated shift from nation building to a more cost- and time-efficient policy of simply destroying the enemy and leaving Afghanistan with a functioning and effectual government...
Despite the uncertain road ahead, Obama is correct in asserting that, if Afghan security forces cannot begin to keep the Taliban at bay and al-Qaeda out of its borders on their own, an American military drawdown would be disastrous for America’s own security...
...There’s a lesson in the loss,” Amaker said. “Sometimes we’ll find things that will help us get better down the road down the stretch. But we didn’t come here to hang around. We came here to see if we could compete and to see if we could scratch...