Mixed Reviews At Home But Boffo In Beijing

June 28, 2011

President Obama’s decision to tap America’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve is getting mixed reviews at home, but some foreign audiences should be on their feet to applaud. Beijing’s central planners must love the American president’s determination to bring down the price of their imported oil without asking them to touch one drop of their own strategic reserves. Italy’s business and political elite, cut off from their usual supply of light, sweet …

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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 Revolutionary Idea: Stasis Is Not Stable

February 23, 2011

Financial markets around the world recoiled this week at the spectacle of Libya’s bloodbath, but it was not out of empathy or compassion. We feel such human emotions as individuals, but they do not apply in a marketplace. A market is where buyers and sellers get together. If the savagery unleashed by Col. Moammar Gadhafi makes you want to sell something, does it simultaneously inspire someone else to buy? Is …

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In The Middle East, Fighting Is Easier Than Peace

June 4, 2010

Decade after decade, the world’s most powerful leaders have tried to resolve the conflict between Israel and its neighbors, yet the two sides continue an endless cycle of provocation, counterattack and escalation. Why? I believe neither side knows what it would do with itself if it didn’t have perpetual conflict with outsiders to unify its society. The war now defines the warriors. Israel, which started its independent life 62 years …

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