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The analogy with Hitler’s Germany is also problematic because, if it were regarded as true, the only sensible course of action would be a preventive strike on Iran and the removal of Ahmadinejad.
Given the evolution of American strategic thinking after Iraq (and now Afghanistan), and of Israel’s strategic thinking after Lebanon, a preventive strike is highly unlikely.
The failure of Iran’s new, more open government to strike a deal would likely lead to the return of conservative leadership in Iran and a renewed threat of military conflict.
And the US Department of Defense is developing a robust program of long-range conventional strike weapons, which China and Russia cite to justify their efforts to strengthen their offensive nuclear forces.
We are not worried by visible dangers, but by vague ones that could strike when least expected – and against which we are insufficiently protected.
The US, increasingly confident in its ability to identify and strike back at any cyber assailant, has so far evaded legal obstacles by focusing on deterrence.
South Africa’s role as a global human-rights leader will be severely undermined if Zuma agrees to sign the secrecy bill into law, or if the constitutional court fails to strike it down.
But a number of points strike me as relevant to the current situation.
In Rome, the army’s sit-down strike in the fifth century B.C. opened politics to the lower classes.
When Trump withdrew from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), which he declared a “bad deal” for America, he claimed that he could strike better deals with each individual party.
FLORENCE: Faced with an embarrassing strike by Air France pilots during the World Cup, the French government purchased labor peace by, among other things, offering striking pilots a big ownership stake in their company.
The United States failed to strike this balance with respect to its 2003 invasion of Iraq.
A general strike, affecting everything except electricity and the press, brings the country to a halt.
All French universities go on strike to defend them.
On May 15, without any instruction from trade unions, some workers spontaneously decide to strike and occupy their factories at an aeronautics plant in Bouguenais, and at a Renault factory in Cléon.
Strike committees, composed of young – and often non-union – workers, question hierarchy, demand respect, and want a “right of free speech,” but never mention wages – or even request negotiations.
The international community – including China – seemed to understand why the US would strike the Syrian air base from which a hideous chemical-weapons attack was launched.
This said, a US preventive strike at Iran’s nuclear-related installations is not in the interest of either country.
To strike an effective balance, the action plan proposes two publicly owned investment funds – one raising money from institutional investors, and the other from individuals.
In the short to medium term, African countries would do well to look into the power of collective bargaining to strike better deals for needed vaccines.
If it had, it probably would not have taken the Kremlin nearly two decades to strike back.
Israeli bombs and missiles periodically strike the encapsulated area, causing high casualties among both militants and innocent women and children.
But EU countries have to stick to the commitment that they made in June and strike a deal in time for a gradual entry into force in January 2013.
Natural disasters strike with greater fury, and in greater numbers, than ever before.
Eventually, a severe pandemic will strike, whether it’s H1N1 or not, and we should do what we can, now, to prepare.
Superbugs should strike fear in doctors and patients everywhere, but fear cannot lead to paralysis.
The elite can be remarkably resilient, retaining the power to strike back at the first sign of weakness.
Increasing wealth taxes now, as Piketty proposes, would strike many people as unfair, because it would amount to imposing a retroactive levy on the work carried out to accumulate that wealth in the past – a change to the rules of the game, and its outcome, after the game is over.
A much larger one (among the thousands of dangerously large asteroids in orbits that intersect the earth’s) could strike the earth and cause the total extinction of the human race through a combination of shock waves, fire, tsunamis, and blockage of sunlight, wherever it struck.
An even more dramatic example of neglect of low-probability/high-cost risks is the danger of an asteroid strike, which is analytically similar to the menace of tsunamis.
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