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...violence in recent times. It is, of course, a great sadness for her family and also a source of desperation for her country: if she had succeeded in elections there would have been some hope of restoring a form of democracy in Pakistan. We are now faced with turmoil in an already troubled and volatile part of the world, and since the West depends so much on Pakistan's support in the campaign against terrorism, I fear we will be subjected to a sustained campaign of violence. Gabrielle Spray, Colchester, England...
...markets had spurred a lot hopeful talk about how they had "decoupled" from the world's traditional growth engine, the U.S. South Korea, for example, now exports more to China than it does to the United States. But developing nations have been anything but safe havens in the recent turmoil, indicating that the decoupling theory will now be tested with a vengeance. "There's no question the slump in the US will have hurt [Asia's] exports," says Shanghai-based economist Andy Xie. Morgan Stanley's Roach believes decoupling is "one of those nice theories you hear...
...violence in recent times. It is, of course, a great sadness for her family and also a source of desperation for her country: if she had succeeded in elections there would have been some hope of restoring a form of democracy in Pakistan. We are now faced with turmoil in an already troubled and volatile part of the world, and since the West depends so much on Pakistan's support in the campaign against terrorism, I fear we will be subjected to a sustained campaign of violence. Gabrielle Spray, COLCHESTER, ENGLAND...
...much more narrow. McCain’s foreign policy viewpoint is also much broader and pragmatic than many of his Republican contemporaries. During his extensive experience in the Senate, he has been on the front lines of many foreign policy debates and has traveled extensively to foreign areas in turmoil...
Kenya is one of the stars of this revival: it has held elections regularly since independence in 1963, its economy grew 6.4% in 2007, and it has been a stable exception to turmoil in East Africa. But the outbreak of violence there following last month's presidential elections threatens that progress. A potential implosion in Kenya is especially worrying to the U.S. because the White House sees it as a frontline state in the war on terrorism, a bulwark against its volatile, jihadi-infested neighbor Somalia. Terrorists have occasionally slipped across Kenya's border, as in 1998, when al-Qaeda...