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...While these developments—as well as the expansion of the alliance into the central European region in 1999 and 2004—are encouraging, the transatlantic partnership must return to its roots. If NATO is to remain relevant to European security, the organization must refocus its energies toward defending its newest and most vulnerable members against a Russian resurgence. At the same time, harebrained schemes for further expansion must be reconsidered. Toward that end, NATO must adopt a more comprehensive agenda—one that tackles larger issues like energy and information security, economic stability, and the details...
...While there are many factors that may affect the emergence of stable democracies and market economies in the region, one thing that will positively affect the trajectories of all the countries on the continent is a continued American military presence on the European continent and a strong transatlantic dialogue. Toward that end, the Obama administration should spearhead the effort to build a better NATO...
...they must reduce their financial-aid programs, universities should be proactive in guiding students toward alternative funding sources, such as private scholarships or government aid. Under the new administration’s budget, students will also be able to take out bigger federally sponsored Perkins loans. The number of colleges whose students are eligible for this loan will increase from 1,800 to 4,000. Admittedly, these proposed benefits will not be available until July 2010, but they will still help...
...health care system. The budget for fiscal year 2010 will almost certainly include significant cuts in health care spending, while maintaining funding for Massachusetts schools, they said. Massachusetts currently devotes 31 percent of its budget to MassHealth, the Massachusetts Medicaid system, according to Kirwan, while approximately 20 percent goes toward schools. Kirwan noted that the health care system has “significant reserves,” which they can access to cover costs. Murphy said the state would first tap into funds allocated by Obama’s national stimulus package to cover spending in the next fiscal year...
Those suspicions made some members of the Sahwa easy pickings for a tenacious insurgency that has capitalized on the rising resentment many in the Sunni community feel toward Shi'ite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's government. Among their complaints: that Baghdad has sometimes been a month or two late in forking over the $300-a-month salary for Sahwa patrolmen; that Sahwa leaders have been arrested, sometimes on charges harking back to their insurgent past, despite promises of amnesty; and most significant, that the government has been slow to make good on its pledge to incorporate...