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...billion for small business, massive improvements in African infrastructure, reduced tariffs, construction of 100 clean-energy projects, and sponsorship of programs in health, education, culture, and agriculture. Since 2000, such measures have not only built China political goodwill, they have also expanded the dollar value of Chinese trade with Africa tenfold...
...largest umbrella union, would like to see aid to struggling states to help avoid layoffs of teachers, police and public employees and upwards of $500 billion more in targeted infrastructure and green-jobs investment. It proposes paying for this by instituting a stock transaction surcharge of 0.25% per trade - a move vehemently opposed by Wall Street, business groups, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the White House. (See 10 ways your job will change...
Ronald Reagan would have done it differently. He would have told a story. It might not have been a true story, but it would have had resonance. He might have found, or created, a grieving spouse - a young investment banker whose wife had died in the World Trade Center - who enlisted immediately after the attacks ... and then gave his life, heroically, defending a school for girls in Kandahar. Reagan would have inspired tears, outrage, passion, a rush to recruiting centers across the nation...
...which would probably lead to a massive refugee influx. As a Shi'ite state, it would see the return to power of militant Sunni hard-liners as a setback. And Iran, which faces a drug-addiction problem of alarming proportions, shares the U.S. desire to curtail Afghanistan's opium trade. If anything, "Tehran stands to lose much more than Washington if Afghanistan reverts back to an al-Qaeda-infested, Taliban-controlled narco state," says Karim Sadjadpour, an Iran expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace...
...solution. The highest priority is not military, but civil development," says Thijs Berman, a Dutch member in the European Parliament and head of its Afghanistan delegation. He says the best way the international community can help is to fight corruption and the resurgence of the opium trade. "Terrorism can only be fought with credible government, with developments the population believes in." (Read the full transcript of Obama's speech...