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...While the Bush administration’s scheme to place missile interceptors in Poland and the Czech Republic was admittedly inflammatory, Polish and Czech agreement to the plan reflects a very real concern for the conventional military guarantees included in the pact. Even if the Obama administration does not go ahead with the plan to install defensive systems in these Central European nations, it should still make it clear that any sort of aggression against our allies in this region would be absolutely unacceptable. To that end, the Obama administration should implement a conventional defense treaty with Poland...
...been reluctant to criticize the post-Soviet oligarchy (or “managed democracy”) that supplies them with vital natural gas. This divide has persisted even in spite of a recent announcement by President Dmitri Medvedev that Russia would embark on a massive new spending and modernization scheme for its outdated military. Therefore, a new energy security policy—one that effectively minimizes the risk of overt dependency on Russia while investing in alternative and renewable technologies—should be at the top of the agenda at the alliance’s annual meeting in Strasbourg...
...that not every lecture can be a Nobel winner; some will be less effective than others. Next is reconstruction (R). He parses the weak lecture, learning lessons for the future about what works and what doesn't. Finally, there's perspective (P), which involves acknowledging that in the grand scheme of life, one lecture really doesn't matter...
Whether or not Congress passes some kind of carbon-taxing scheme that ushers in a true alternative-energy era, "sustainability" is going to be shaping individual and public-policy decisions. And I don't just mean eating locally grown foods, driving more fuel-efficient cars and using weird lightbulbs. Annual increases of 10% and 15% in real estate prices were not sustainable; endlessly lowering taxes and expanding government isn't sustainable; Medicare and the war on drugs as currently constituted are not sustainable. Sustainability in this sense is as much old-fashioned green-eyeshade Republicanism as it is newfangled kumbaya...
...botching his job and why the Treasury only just found out about the bonus payments. This week, though, Geithner was saved, in part, by the introduction Monday of the long-awaited details of his plan to get credit flowing again. Unlike his first stab at a rollout, this scheme was well received by the stock market, sending the Dow Jones industrial average up nearly 500 points, the fourth best day of trading since 1933 (though many economists still had doubts about it). At least half the questions Tuesday were forward-looking, centered on the particulars of the public/private partnership plan...