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...This combination of slowing growth and soaring inflation turns economic policymaking into a tricky tightrope act - one with potentially ugly consequences for Asian governments that get the balance wrong. In the past 40 years, rapid price rises contributed to the collapse of two Indonesian regimes; inflation was also a factor during China's Tiananmen Square uprising in 1989. Consumer price inflation stirs up the middle classes because it can quickly erase years of hard-won personal gains. And inflation can be particularly cruel to the poor, because families are forced to spend a larger share of their meager incomes...
...healthy to say, "I love my country, right or wrong." This leads to the delusion that our way of life is the right way for all the world. I love my country too - and I am not ashamed to acknowledge all its mistakes as well as all its accomplishments. Mark Fagerburg, Richmond, Virginia...
...Torment Readers may wonder how it is that Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has dragged his country into economic collapse and abject poverty, yet millions of Zimbabweans still support him [June 30]. This is because in Africa, tribal feeling remains powerful. The chief of your tribe can do no wrong, and African culture demands that he be supported at all costs. Western nations are justifiably horrified by what is happening in Zimbabwe, but they should bear in mind that the Mugabe regime came to power with their support. Watch South Africa: Its economy and social framework are rapidly following the same...
Nowhere in Peter Beinart's article did I see mention of the word nationalism, which is what much of far-right patriotism really is. It is not healthy to say, "I love my country, right or wrong." I love my country too--and I am not ashamed to acknowledge its mistakes as well as its accomplishments. Mark Fagerburg, RICHMOND...
...resignation speech on Thursday, Noppadon insisted he had done nothing wrong. "I have not sold the country out," he said. "I love Thailand and would not cause any damage to the nation." But Noppadon is in a vulnerable position; before serving as Foreign Minister, he was Thaksin's lawyer and spokesman. One of the reasons the coup leaders gave for deposing Thaksin was that he supposedly had not shown enough respect for Thailand's beloved king. For Samak's enemies, in turn, taking an allegedly cavalier attitude toward Thailand's territorial integrity was not so different from an alignment with...