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...Osama bin Laden and Saddam in the 1980s on precisely this logic, but after 9/11, Bush himself acknowledged that coddling the enemies of our enemies had not made them friends; instead it had helped sow more extremism. And today Arab governments can no longer be bought by a single bidder. Avoiding too close an association with Washington, they toy with Russia, China, India and others competing for their affection...
...think Major League Baseball should let you bid on the Chicago Cubs? -Miguel Santiago, Guaynabo, Puerto RicoI'm interested, but there isn't really more to say beyond that. The first step was being approved as a potential bidder, which I've been through, but the process has not progressed much further. I'd love to be able to do, but we'll see what happens...
...good on Dr. Dobson for choosing a third way. It certainly won’t work, but there’s something inspiring about seeing a captain go down with his ship in this age of highest-bidder politics. And at the moment when he realizes that the evangelical lobby is doomed to return to relative obscurity, he can always take out his frustration on the kids...
...even if Budvar does go up for grabs, says CEO Jiri Bocek, Anheuser-Busch would not be given preferential treatment over any other bidder. In January, the rivals announced a deal under which Anheuser-Busch would import and distribute Budvar's Czechvar beer in the United States. Rumors immediately swirled that the American brewer was trying to get ahead of potential bidders in a future privatization. But Bocek rejects those claims. He says that when Anheuser-Busch CEO August Busch IV made him the surprise distribution-deal offer in a meeting in Prague, they agreed, he says, "that the only...
...professionals as modern-day mercenaries; soldiers-for-hire who retired or are cherry-picked from the military by Blackwater and firms like it, often attracted by the higher wages and comparatively lax disciplinary standards.This is not to say that the government should never contract out services to the lowest bidder in order to streamline operations or increase capabilities at home or abroad. But Blackwater’s contracts in Iraq alone, which total $800 million, were mostly no-bid contracts granted by the Department of Defense. Blackwater also holds similar contracts to provide its services in Afghanistan, and it worked...