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Most of all, Iraq's future will be determined by an American decision. With the terrorist threat diminished, is it worth spending $9 billion a month to referee the eternal Mesopotamian ethnic differences while the U.S. lapses into a second-world debtor economy, unable to invest in health care, education and high-tech infrastructure? Or is it time to scale back, in a prudent fashion, the U.S. commitment there? No doubt, this will annoy McCain enormously, but?like almost everything else in this campaign?the war in Iraq is about to become an economic issue...
...Bush remains determined to transform the Middle East, where the success of his presidency will be judged by history. That means holding tough in Iraq, whose Defense Minister now says U.S. troops will be needed until 2018, and staying tough with Iran. The CIA has downplayed the Iranian threat, but Bush pointedly distanced himself from that assessment in Abu Dhabi, calling on the world to "confront this danger before it's too late...
Earlier the month, the U.S. Navy reported that five Iranian speedboats had approached a U.S. convoy in the Strait of Hormuz and radioed the threat "You will explode." President Bush promptly warned that an expansionist, fundamentalist Iran was up to its old tricks and that "all options are on the table to protect our assets." For a moment, the stage was set for confrontation. There was one problem: Pentagon officials noticed the recording was suspect and had to move quickly away from their initial claim that Iranian naval officers had issued the threat...
...Coan and his colleagues conducted an experiment in which married women underwent brain scans using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). During the scans, the women were told they were going to receive a painful electric shock. The researchers then watched to see how the subjects' brains responded to the threat and found that among happily married women, hypothalamus activity declined sharply if husbands held their wives' hands during the experiment. Women who reported being less satisfied with their marriage--and women whose hands were held by strangers--got little such relief. "The effect was pretty profound," says Coan...
...also found that spousal hand-holding had an effect in an entirely different part of the brain: the right anterior insula, which responds to the threat of pain by calling your attention to the part of your body that's in danger, increasing the amount of discomfort you ultimately feel. In Coan's study, the right anterior insula of happily married women stayed relatively quiet. "This suggests," he says, "that your spouse may function as an analgesic...