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...main international supporter and essential provider of economic aid—as the key player in forcing a satisfactory resolution of the crisis. Simultaneously, the Bush Administration has voiced expectations that the example of America’s military triumph in Iraq will send a clear and unambiguous coercive lesson to other hostile proliferators, who must understand that they should refrain from seeking WMD or risk the fate of Saddam’s Iraq...
...story holds another lesson: Mexico could not have changed on its own. The transformation from a closed, state-dominated economy to an open one was wrenching. Mexico needed help, which it got from the U.S. The North American Free Trade Agreement, negotiated by the first Bush Administration and signed by that of Bill Clinton, guaranteed that the U.S. would buy what Mexico produced; later, when the peso collapsed, Clinton put together a rescue package...
When it comes to evaluating risks, both ordinary people and policymakers tend to be wildly inefficient. Remember that in the 1970s, intelligence officials, preoccupied with communism, discounted the threat posed by Islamic fundamentalism. The lesson: Ignored threats often pose more serious threats to global stability than the fears du jour. So with SARS and terrorism now dominating headlines and our worry space, it's worth pondering what threats have been squeezed out. The recent bad winter suggests one strong candidate for consideration: the threat of rapid climate change...
...September 1999, my first few days in Cambridge, the Red Sox and the Yankees were heatedly engaged in the playoffs. I was innocently sauntering along Mass. Ave. wearing my tattered Yankee hat when a man actually jumped out of his truck, mid-traffic, to teach me a crucial Boston lesson...
...Wilhelm Gustloff, he says, partly because his own family could easily have been on the ship. His mother was never able to talk to him about what she experienced when the Russians moved into Danzig. "There is no family in Germany that did not learn some kind of lesson from the two World Wars," says Grass. In Crabwalk, a character based on Grass--himself a man of the left--laments the "staggering failure" of the left's silence in the face of such misery. That silence is ending...