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...Halliburton's move is a clear sign that American consumers will be relying more and more on oil and gas produced by nationally owned companies, some in emerging democracies like Indonesia where bureaucracies are often unwieldy, others in strife-torn African nations or corrupt former Soviet republics. The move also puts Halliburton's CEO closer to emerging markets in fast-industrializing China and India...
When I first came to Baghdad, Saddam Hussein was still in charge, and Iraqis lived in the sort of fear I had read about in old spy novels set in the Soviet Union. The dictator's network of spies and informants was reputed to reach into every neighborhood, every home, every family; so Iraqis - whether top government officials or the man in the street - were afraid to speak their mind to a journalist. It didn't help that I was always accompanied by a state-appointed minder, whose job was to ensure that nobody told me anything that might reflect...
...deeper than an insufficient desire to win. For the last quarter-century, national security has been the glue holding the Republican coalition together. During Reagan's first term, conservatives overlooked his tax hikes and big spending because they thrilled to his vision of an America that rolled back Soviet power. In 2004, conservatives overlooked George W. Bush's prescription drug benefit and his liberal stance on immigration, and turned out for him in record numbers, because they believed so deeply in his war on terror. Now, by contrast, right-wingers carp endlessly about his domestic spending, even though his budgets...
...detriment—fiscal, moral, and military—the United States has faced since the institution of the Bush Doctrine. But the book is much more than one long polemic. Shapiro argues that terrorism can be contained despite the contrast between these small cells and the gigantic Soviet Union for which the policy of containment was developed. Though he acknowledges that it is impossible to know what would have happened, he makes quite a strong case for how Iraq and terror cells can be contained, and how it would benefit us to have at least tried. Shapiro offers...
...Iran’s] top three enemies?” Allison said. “Saddam Hussein? We took him out. The Taliban? We took them out. Bin Laden? We’re going after him. Before that, who was your greatest enemy? The Soviet Union. You guys owe us.” Allison added that if he were in the Bush Administration, he would tell Iran that the time had come for America “to collect.” But Steve Miller, director of the International Security Program at the Belfer Center, said that Iranians feel they...