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...Sweden. By ceding control of monetary policy to the E.C.B., he fears, it will be hard for Sweden to use the fiscal tools of government spending to correct the problem. But such abstractions are not foremost in voters' minds. The real opposition to the euro is political. The fright scenario is: the European Union will eventually adopt measures to harmonize taxes, which will mean a cutback in high-tax countries like Sweden. The government will respond by cutting the budget, which will translate into slashing public-sector jobs like teachers and nurses. These jobs are held mostly by women, which...
Deep inside the Pentagon, where young colonels arrive before dawn to revise once more the short list of available combat units ready to deploy overseas, a nightmare scenario hangs in the air, unmentioned but unmistakable. With 140,000 U.S. troops tied down stabilizing Iraq, 34,000 in Kuwait, 10,000 in Afghanistan and 5,000 in the Balkans, what good options would George W. Bush have if, say sometime next spring, North Korea's Kim Jong Il decided to test the resilience of the relatively small "trip-wire" force of 37,000 American troops in South Korea? Where would...
...called rise in Hindu fundamentalism is a natural reaction to an alarming growth of Islamic puritanism that propagates violence in the name of religion. Your story gave a negative image of Hindus, not an unbiased assessment of the complex religio-political scenario in India. Mandar Kashelikar Pune, India...
...most optimistic scenario, Bush would be going into the election season this fall with solid victories in Afghanistan and Iraq - as well as the scalps of some of America's most noxious enemies - under his belt. Europeans and other naysayers would have been chastened by the discovery in Iraq of huge stocks of anthrax and nuclear weapons-in-the-making, and would quickly learn to be more like Tony Blair. Bush would also be pointing to a democratic Afghanistan emerging from the ashes of Taliban misrule, and the first rays of Iraqi freedom beaming into the dark corners of Arab...
...Hussein was always popular, and in the largely Shi'ite south. But as Clark says, "We're not going to hand over the Sunni triangle"--the area in which most of the attacks on coalition forces since the end of formal hostilities have taken place--"to anyone." In this scenario, then, the dangerous work would continue to be done by American soldiers...