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...preferred Bush over Kerry due to the President's proven tough stand against terrorism and protectionism. The structural reason for the deepening disillusionment with America is the growing perception in Asia (and perhaps in the world) of American indifference to the clear impact of its actions elsewhere. Too often, short-term domestic and electoral considerations drive America's international policies. To regain the goodwill it has accumulated, America should begin to factor in the long-term dimension of the many critical challenges that America and Asia face in common...
...proposed a strategy for confronting the Soviet Union. But the expert was also remembering, with anger and nostalgia, an era that started with Pearl Harbor and ended with the Tonkin Gulf Resolution of 1964, when strategic thinking in the priestly realms of foreign and economic policy was unpolluted by short-term partisan politics, when words like intellectual and realism and, yes, global weren't terms of opprobrium. This Administration has presided over the culmination of a trend that has been a long time building: the triumph of politics and populist anti-intellectualism over policy...
...even if the Administration succeeds in remaking the military, the failure to bolster troop levels carries grave short-term risks. In August, a classified study requested by Rumsfeld concluded that there are "inadequate total numbers" of U.S. troops to maintain the current pace of operations around the world. Some military experts fear that if a crisis erupted with Iran and North Korea, the U.S. would be unable to credibly threaten the use of force because of its obligations in Iraq and Afghanistan. "We can't respond to another major crisis right now," says retired Army General Barry McCaffrey. "We have...
Zipcar, which is challenging the traditional concept of a car rental company with its short-term, low-price rentals, is particularly interested in recruiting student members, said Malloy...
...Harvard, a Rockefeller Center seminar to discuss the book has been canceled, and five of the scholars are still seeking visa approval from the State Department to conduct short-term research visits at several Harvard graduate schools, Barberia said...