The End Of The Beginning

May 2, 2011

We can take a little time out for satisfaction today in last night’s announcement that Osama bin Laden has been brought to justice in the only practical way — with his death, under American fire, in one of his Pakistani hideouts. But we ought not to delude ourselves into believing that this is the end, or even the beginning of the end, of our decade-long war against the particularly malignant …

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A Trade Victory Made In America

March 9, 2011

Thanks to some intelligent and aggressive decisions by the U.S. Export-Import Bank and the leading industrialized nations, 150 new locomotives in Pakistan will be labeled “Made in the U.S.A” rather than “Made in China.” Pakistan wanted to go with General Electric Co., instead of a Chinese competitor, even though the Chinese railcars were 30 to 50 percent cheaper. But there was one big caveat: Pakistan was only willing to give …

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Chairman Mao’s Living Legacy

November 11, 2010

In China, one Nobel Peace Prize winner sits in jail while his wife endures an unofficial house arrest. Another, much more famous winner — the Dalai Lama — has been in exile from his Chinese-ruled homeland for more than 50 years. In Russia, journalists are routinely attacked and killed with impunity. A video documenting one such attack appeared on a Russian news site just this week. In Pakistan, journalists also …

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