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A recent survey showed overwhelming Pakistani opposition to US military incursions into their country.
But this remains a small amount compared to military outlays, and an overarching framework to support economic development is missing.
Before investing hundreds of billions of dollars more in failing military operations, the Obama administration should re-think its policy and lay out a viable strategy to US citizens and the world.
Such a strategy cannot simply emerge as a byproduct of US military campaigns.
Hamas timed these revelations with the disengagement to create the impression that its intensifying military strategy had prevailed.
Similarly, Mohamed Deif, the leader of Hamas’s military wing, asserted on a recent videotape that the lesson of Gaza is that Israel can be forced out of the West Bank, Jerusalem, and Haifa.
No matter what happens the day after Israel’s final Gaza disengagement, one cannot escape the fact that Hamas’s military options have diminished greatly.
On the top board of military power among countries, the US is the only superpower.
After all, neither China’s one-party state-capitalist system nor Russia’s plutocratic political economy is particularly liberal, and neither country is especially averse to asserting its (self-identified) rights by military means.
For China, this means “defending” its territorial claims in the East and South China Seas with an increasingly assertive foreign policy, conspicuously backed by growing military muscle.
But it is Europe that has been living in a fantasy: a “post-historical” world where military power does not matter, subsidies can tame nationalist forces, and leaders are law-abiding, well-mannered gentlemen and women.
Egypt’s military regime, led by General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, has been unrelentingly hostile toward Hamas, blaming it for the fighting in Sinai between the army and insurgent groups.
Despite its modest military capabilities, Hamas managed to hold out for 51 days – and, in the process, place itself at the center of Palestinian and regional politics.
But a military coup in Bangladesh strained the bilateral relationship and stymied the deal.
In the ancient world, Athenians identified with their city’s democratic ethos, while Spartans prided themselves on their city’s reputation for military discipline and strength.
But, in Pakistan, delegitimation of military rule had actually occurred three years earlier, and the pressure for change came from much the same source – a restive and mobilized new middle class.
In Pakistan, a discredited military was forced by public opinion to withdraw from power, creating political space for elected representatives.
They assumed control (though not over the military), but did not govern wisely.
In the second case, the Supreme Court wants Pakistan’s military intelligence agencies to account for hundreds, if not thousands, of missing people who were detained as part of the agencies’ campaign to contain the rise of Islamic extremism, or to undermine separatist aspirations in restive Baluchistan.
More recently, Cristina’s foreign minister presided over the requisitioning of a US military plane on Argentinean soil.
These forecasts supported enactment of large long-term tax cuts and faster spending growth (both military and otherwise).
Calling Off America’s BombsNEW YORK – As the US Congress considers whether to authorize American military intervention in Syria, its members should bear in mind a basic truth: While Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad has repeatedly used extreme violence to retain power, the United States – and other governments in the Middle East and Europe – share responsibility for turning Syria into a killing field.
The protests became a military rebellion when parts of the Syrian army broke with the regime and established the Free Syrian Army.
That open-ended statement, without any clear means to achieve the goal that it announced, has done much to fuel military escalation and the rising death toll in Syria, while pushing the US repeatedly to defend its “credibility” against a line in the sand that it should not have drawn.
The US preempted this process by backing the military rebellion and insisting on Assad’s immediate departure.
A direct US attack on Syria without UN backing is far more likely to inflame the region than it is to resolve the crisis there – a point well appreciated in the United Kingdom, where Parliament bucked the government by rejecting British participation in a military strike.
The Bush administration raised military spending sharply as it went to war in Afghanistan and Iraq, and as it increased spending on national security at home, without ever explaining to the American people how this would be financed.
Huge tax cuts and rising military spending have fueled an enormous rise in imports, and therefore a yawning trade deficit now accompanies America’s weak fiscal position.
All want to take part in the growth and solidarity of a Europe where democracy and respect are the ruling civic concepts, not brute military power.
China’s Threat to RussiaLast week, Russia and China held joint military maneuvers in the presence of both Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Hu Jintao.
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