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...fleet patrols Asia's sea lanes, ensuring that precious oil can be imported and profitable consumer goods exported. Tens of thousands of American servicemen are stationed in nearly 200 military installations across Asia, in theory to protect the region from ruinous conflict. American culture has put its technicolor stamp just about everywhere. The West Wing is a hit in Hong Kong and Friends is very popular in?of all places?Pakistan...
...fight for democracy" has only just begun, and the governors will not find the going easy. Japan's construction boondoggles come rigged with booby traps for those who try to dismantle them. Former Governor Yukio Aoshima of Tokyo, who campaigned in the mid-1990s against a ruinous bay project, was forced to retreat when he found that cancellation would incur hundreds of millions of dollars in penalties...
...supply in our politics today. The Bush Administration has succeeded in "changing the tone" back to the days of pessimism, when partisan politics pitted businesses against clean air and water. It has turned the environmental agenda over to big polluters, denouncing even modest reforms as technologically impossible and economically ruinous. These doomsday predictions aren't new: if Richard Nixon had believed polluters' grim fairy tales, he never would have put an end to the days when lakes and rivers literally caught fire...
...populations through hunting. Instead, when he and Suzana began to talk with local leaders, they found allies rather than enemies. The landless, they found, were in desperate need of almost everything, including wood. Yet they were willing to try to fill that need in ways that were not environmentally ruinous...
...Hawks will argue that he has before him an historic opportunity to remake the politics of the entire Middle East on terms favorable to Washington; skeptics will warn that he could be initiating an epic quagmire that will destroy his presidency and commit the U.S. to a messy, even ruinous colonial mission...