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The Dominican government’s decision to hold a summit on Haiti’s future has the objective of securing the international community’s ongoing commitment to Haiti, beyond the generous response to the catastrophe produced by the earthquake in January.
The early responses have been mixed: although Republican Senators Jeff Flake, John McCain, and Ben Sasse have expressed varying degrees of disappointment, normally independent-minded Senators Susan Collins and Lindsey Graham have backed Trump’s decision.
How elusive the peace dividend remains can be seen from the government’s decision to press ahead with the expansion of an already-large military.
Harsh austerity measures – cuts to pensions, salaries, and social services (including a recent decision to close hundreds of hospitals and lay off thousands of medical personnel) – have inspired barely any criticism.
Most notably, in 2015, when the European Union was being inundated by refugees from conflict zones like Syria, she introduced Europe’s most compassionate refugee policy – a decision that has invited considerable criticism and political pressure.
Iran’s Troubled RiseAmerica’s decision to target Iranian agents in Iraq who may be involved in supporting violent militias is but another sign of the massive influence Iran is exercising in that troubled country.
We might charitably assume that Trump simply does not understand the implications of his decision.
And he signed off his tweet announcing that he had made a decision on the Paris accord with the words, “MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
But Trump’s decision undermines every one of these goals, and it goes against the wishes of a vast majority of Americans, including many of his own supporters.
Other parties to the Paris agreement have responded to Trump’s decision with strength, thus proving the resilience of the agreement itself.
The rest of the world will be sad to see an America that has been left behind, owing to Trump’s decision.
By placing America in the company of the only two countries that have not joined the Paris agreement – Syria and Nicaragua – Trump’s decision is completely at odds with the current global atmosphere of cooperation.
His decision is a blow to so many people – including a great many Americans – who have worked hard to be a successful part of the new economy.
Nonetheless, current interest rates were described as “still appropriate” in October, signaling that the ECB has not yet reached a decision to bite the bullet.
Such cases of "too much, too early" tend to occur when the initial decision is politically undemanding, and short term consequences limited.
Mercifully, the democratic process does make it difficult to execute a policy decision of this magnitude without public debate.
Thus, the decision to designate renminbi clearing banks in London and Frankfurt is, in effect, one more step by China to foster the emergence of an international monetary system with several global currencies, not just one.
You might think so given the response of some Arab governments to Hezbollah’s decision to attack Israel.
In view of this global challenge, the G-8 countries have made a heroic decision: the eight richest industrial countries – which are also the largest polluters – promised to “seriously examine” cutting their emissions in half by 2050.
As it happens, Putin is now entrenching the already dominant United Russia party by his decision to head the party’s candidate list in December’s parliamentary election.
This increasingly dangerous dynamic is apparent in the decision of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates to cut diplomatic ties with Qatar, owing to its alleged ties with regional terrorist groups and Iran, Saudi Arabia’s main rival for regional influence.
The prime minister then met with Iraq’s chief justice, following which the court’s decision was reversed.
When one considers the low proportion of its gross income that the US gives as foreign aid, Trump’s decision becomes even more shameful.
Sex, Leaks, and Swedish LawSTOCKHOLM – Ecuador’s decision to grant asylum to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, in order to protect him from extradition to Sweden, has raised difficult questions, particularly for the United Kingdom, on whose territory the Ecuadoran embassy, where Assange remains, is located.
Indeed, such a decision would be in the hands of the British authorities – just as Assange’s fate has been since he fled to London in 2010.
Fortunately, his decision was reversed by the government after public uproar.
The decision to ground flights was based on the view that any level of ash in the atmosphere posed some risk to aircraft, and that no matter how slight that risk might be, the government’s job was, as British Prime Minister Gordon Brown put it, “to make sure that safety was paramount.”
On the whole, though, the public seemed to support the decision.
Once he knows of it, the decision is his to make, because only he can judge the importance of his journey, and balance that against the risk he is running.
If they are fully informed of the risks, and are still willing to fly – perhaps the crew has been offered more money, as workers in dangerous occupations often are – should we prevent them from making the decision to fly?
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