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Wouldn't waiving Pakistan's quota under the Multi-Fiber Agreement have been a very good and important step for the US government to take in reciprocation of the Pakistani government's help as US-led forces attacked Al Qaeda bases in Afghanistan?
Similarly, NATO would agree immediately to keep Scotland in the Alliance (though the Scottish National Party’s pledge to close US and British nuclear-submarine bases would be a complication to be overcome).
It consists of two strings – formed from phosphate and sugar – along which four unique chemical compounds (DNA bases) are attached.
There are about three billion bases, and the sequences in which they occur is our genetic code, or human genome.
It is getting tough in its territorial disputes with Japan in the East China Sea; it is becoming assertive in the South China Sea with its neighbors, also over disputed islands; it put its own stealth fighter on display during the US defense secretary’s visit to China; it is sending its first aircraft carrier out to sea for trials, indicating the possibility of establishing naval bases in the Indian Ocean.
The US established military bases throughout the region, and repeated failed operations by the CIA have left massive supplies of armaments in the hands of violent foes of the US and Europe.
According to a senior Pakistani military official, India, in pursuit of its “Cold Start” military doctrine, is constructing eight bases at which heavy armor would be stationed.
And now Japan will provide up to $2.8 billion dollars to help improve US bases on Guam, which will have even greater strategic significance in the future.
In late July, China reportedly threatened to attack Vietnamese bases in the Spratlys if Vietnam did not stop its oil exploration activities in an area that lies within Vietnam’s continental shelf, but also within Beijing’s notorious nine-dash line.
American military bases in Asia and the Pacific are also on his list of targets.
Some opponents of the Iraq War, including me, believe that a fundamental – and deeply misguided – objective of the war from the outset has been to create a long-term military base (or bases) in Iraq, ostensibly to protect oil routes and oil concessions.
The need to redress that imbalance has become increasingly evident since the recent financial crisis, as banks' efforts to rebuild their capital bases (and meet stricter regulatory requirements) has led to credit rationing.
Above all, if Africa is to escape the crossfire of international terrorism, the trend towards establishing US military bases on the continent must be stopped.
But Russia already has naval and air bases in Tartus and Latakia – assets that Putin is committed to defending.
The strategy should be to transform Russia’s eastern regions into one of rising Asia’s resource and food bases.
In support of this increased engagement – aimed not at establishing new permanent bases, but rather at building stronger allies and partners through a greater rotational presence – the third pillar of America’s rebalancing is to enhance our presence across the Pacific and Indian Oceans.
Instead, it bases its legitimacy on rapid economic growth and ethnic Han nationalism.
McDonald’s has covered its bases on the issue, capitalizing on the link between customers’ homelands and the US market.
The Kremlin has activated a new military command for the Arctic, and is busy reopening air bases and radar stations along its Arctic shoreline.
But it is a very long way from these new Russian bases to virtually everywhere.
The greenback’s worldwide popularity enables the US to project power around the globe – to maintain military bases and facilities in over 100 countries, to keep naval battle groups afloat from the Mediterranean to the Pacific, and to help defend allies from Europe and the Middle East to Japan and Korea.
Others chafe at the burden of US bases, particularly on the island of Okinawa.
A longer-term goal should thus be for the US gradually to transfer its bases to Japanese control, leaving American forces to rotate among them.
In fact, some bases – notably, Misawa Air Base north of Tokyo – already fly Japan’s flag, while hosting American units.
As China invests in advanced ballistic missiles, the fixed bases on Okinawa become increasingly vulnerable.
To avoid the perception that the US decided to turn the bases over to Japan just when their military benefits were diminishing, and to ensure that the move represented America’s recommitment to the alliance, a joint commission would have to be established to manage the transfer.
The whole human genome has approximately six billion bases, but a window into its composition can be probed using approximately one million bases (0.01% of the genome) via a gene chip.
The bases on the chip are selected because they are informative, tagging bins of the genome, like a post-code directory.
Bases that exist at the whim of mercurial regimes cannot be a foundation for America’s security.
When forced to choose between their societies and their clientele, politicians may well decide that allowing social tensions to rise – even to dangerous levels – is better than sacrificing their own power bases.
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