Word: self-interest
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...BLAIR: It's not just America that has to be involved. Europe's got to be involved too. We've got choices. We can do it or not do it. But the reason I believe we should do it is because I believe it's important and in our self-interest...
...grinding poverty and pandemic disease" in Africa, fortifying the U.N. and rebuilding Afghanistan - but delivering any of them depends on Bush, who is narrowly focused on getting al-Qaeda and defending the homeland. "Some say it's Utopian," Blair declared. "But the point I [am] making is simply that self-interest for a nation and the interests of the broader community are no longer in conflict. In the war against terrorism the moralists and the realists are partners...
...grinding poverty and pandemic disease" in Africa, fortifying the U.N. and rebuilding Afghanistan?but delivering any of them depends on Bush, who is narrowly focused on getting al-Qaeda and defending the homeland. "Some say it's Utopian," Blair declared. "But the point I (am) making is simply that self-interest for a nation and the interests of the broader community are no longer in conflict. In the war against terrorism the moralists and the realists are partners...
...start an environmental revolution by phasing in a new, gloriously Republican method of environmental regulation: Charging companies for the pollutants they emit. Cost-benefit-obsessed Bush regulatory chief John D. Graham can take care of the calculations, and together they push the dirtiest industries to clean up out of self-interest and put market forces to work for cleaner technologies. Not to mention bring the EPA - and the government - a whole new revenue stream...
...treats Afghanistan will be taken as an indication of the way we will treat other failed states in the future. If we abandon the country after locating Osama bin Laden and other leaders of al Qaeda, the world will assume that we have no other goal than our immediate self-interest. The U.S. must show that it is genuinely concerned about the fate of the Afghan people, and the only way to do that is to strongly support, in both word and deed, the U.N.’s efforts to rebuild Afghanistan...