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...timing of the launch, just hours before a major address on ridding the world of nuclear weapons, was either fortuitous or terrible for Obama, at once highlighting the issue of proliferation and showing just how hard it will be to tame an unruly world. In his speech before a crowd of about 20,000 at the Prague Castle compound Obama opted to use the launch as a teaching moment. "Just this morning, we were reminded again of why we need a new and more rigorous approach to address this threat," he said. "This provocation underscores the need for action...
Should this story be told at all? There's an element of sick, voyeuristic fascination to it--we don't need an exercise in disaster porn. But Columbine is a necessary book. Narrating an event is a way to tame it, to give it a meaning, and the Columbine massacre is an aggressively, catastrophically meaningless event, a rip in the smooth fabric of an otherwise comprehensible world. It's a vacuum that urgently demands to be filled...
...Read "After the Stimulus, Can Obama Tame the Deficit...
...Because the U.S. is Europe's irreplaceable insurance policy against a resurgent Russia, and against strategic threats as yet unseen. That's why all Europeans want to keep the U.S. in as a counterweight to the bear, and perils to come. But there is more. Whether Russia is tame or growling, the U.S. simply remains the indispensable power for all seasons. The Europeans remember the 1990s, when they could not get a posse together to take on Slobodan Milosevic's Serbia. It took Bill Clinton's America and the U.S. Air Force to do the job. If the U.S. doesn...
...opposition leaders were barred from elected office. The controversial ruling from the Supreme Court has sparked violent and angry protests against the government of President Asif Ali Zardari in Punjab, the largest and wealthiest province of the country. Just as Pakistan's civilian leadership most needs to unite to tame militants, the country's two main political parties have revived their poisonous rivalry, setting off on a potentially destructive confrontation with each other...