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Your cover line, "The Threat in Yemen ... a tough challenge for the West" fills me with foreboding. What will be our brilliant strategy this time? To wade in again, missile-handed, and further destabilize an already fragile country, alienating yet more of its citizens? Terrorism is a worldwide problem and needs a worldwide response. We all hate terrorism, but when it comes to foreign policy, the solutions should be spearheaded by a strongly financed and resourced U.N. Maybe it's time to get behind and support the organization we have marginalized for so long. Give it the power...
...made history by being the first Chinese, indeed the first Asians, to take half the semifinal places in a Grand Slam singles event. It was irrelevant whether the two would progress further in the tournament - their feat was already a huge achievement in a game long dominated by the West. Now the smart money is on China displaying the same relentlessness to evolve into a women's-tennis power (Chinese men, by contrast, have hit the proverbial net), just as the country has in being the largest exporting nation, the biggest holder of foreign reserves and almost the world...
Bill Clinton is right when he says all international efforts regarding Haiti are essential so "the Haitian people can reclaim their destiny." However, he misses one point that is key to Haiti's becoming self-sustaining, and that is cultural change. The mix of West African religious and cultural influences prevalent in the country, like voodoo, sends the message that life is dictated by magic, and planning has no effect on the future. Haitian culture must be redeveloped and restructured, and although the circumstances are tragic, this is a time to change in order for the country to move forward...
Bruce McPhee, WEST YARMOUTH, MASS...
...Luckily for Syria, perhaps, Israel is dragging its feet even more on the peace front. Having separated themselves from an ever hostile Palestinian population by withdrawing from Gaza and walling off the West Bank, the Israelis have lost interest in land-for-peace deals. So not only are Israeli-Palestinian peace talks largely moribund, but the Netanyahu government has dodged Syrian requests for direct talks, calling instead for indirect talks whose goal would be to agree to a cessation of hostilities rather than a return of the Golan Heights. That's a nonstarter for Damascus; no Syrian government could make...