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If he does not change course in Iraq and beyond, his presidency might draw the curtain on long decades of American hegemony in the Middle East – to the detriment of its closest allies in the region.
As the curtain drops, two developments will greatly influence the withdrawal process and the ultimate outcome.
That short war in the Caucasus brought down the curtain on nearly two decades of post-Cold War Western hegemony in Europe.
The time came, however, when Russia could no longer hide its flaws behind its vast steppes and iron curtain.
For example, the Panama Papers and the Paradise Papers pulled back the curtain on the murky system of tax havens and shell companies that shelter billions of dollars from some of the world’s poorest countries, including many in Africa.
The curtain will rise on a set of false promises, and it will close with policies that can lead only to mayhem – unless the audience gets into the act.
Seventy-two years after Winston Churchill declared that an “iron curtain” was descending across Eastern Europe, a new sort of border is being erected – a curtain of shame.
Mending Bangladesh’s Garment IndustryKUALA LUMPUR – Four years ago, the deadly collapse of the Rana Plaza garment factory in Bangladesh pulled back the curtain on the employment practices of the global apparel industry.
The Arab Spring’s Balance SheetCAIRO – Last year’s events in Egypt and Tunisia drew the curtain on a tottering old order and delivered much of the Arab world into a long-awaited new era.
Thirty-two years and four presidents later, Barack Obama’s recent inaugural address, with its ringing endorsement of a larger role for government in addressing America’s – and the world’s – most urgent challenges, looks like it may bring down the curtain on that era.
Central banks must bring down the curtain on zero and, especially, negative interest rates.
During the Cold War, the West used hard power to deter Soviet aggression, while it used soft power to erode faith in Communism behind the iron curtain.
Many governments’ determination to “erect electronic barriers” to block their citizens’ efforts to access the full resources of the Internet, she said, means that “a new information curtain is descending across our world.”
Imagine if the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and regional development banks suspended financing as soon as a government pulled down an information curtain.
Public opinion on either side of the EU’s current eastern frontier - Europe’s velvet curtain - has different concerns, but the two public opinions are also communicating vessels.
Finally, and more important than any of these individual steps, the leaders of Europe have to take up the challenge and really start making the case for the larger Europe to their publics, east and west of the velvet curtain.
The serious, realistic, and sober peace process that we have begun with the FARC could end the internal armed conflict in Colombia, implying the defeat, once and for all, of the continent’s guerrilla groups and bringing down the curtain on a half-century of senseless violence.
In a theatre, our consciences are touched, but responsibility ends when the curtain falls.
Yet the curtain gets lifted from time to time.
China’s Financial FetishWith the drum beating for the development of the costal areas of Tianjin near Beijing, the curtain seems to be rising on yet another “financial center” in China.
Together we can prevent a new silver curtain from replacing Europe's old iron curtain.
But, with Tibet locked behind an iron curtain since the 1951 Chinese annexation, the economies and cultures of the entire Himalayan region have weakened.
Ukraine’s subjugation to Russia by military force would bring down the curtain on that order and its underlying principles: non-violence, the inviolability of borders, and popular self-determination, rather than spheres of influence.
That 20 years after this epochal event an iron curtain remains around Cuba makes this anniversary poignant.
Of course, the tourists who crowd Cuba’s beaches are not aware of this iron curtain.
We have to make sure he is in place when the curtain goes up.
In a theatre, our consciences are touched but responsibility ends when the curtain drops.
A new iron curtain in Europe, this time between liberal and illiberal democracies – is a grim prospect.
Naming China among a handful of countries that have stepped up Internet censorship, Clinton warned that “a new information curtain is descending across much of the world.”
Perhaps this was not what he or Sarkozy had in mind when the curtain went up, but the denouement should favor the UK.
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