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China needs to strike a balance between policy-supported stability and market-driven progress.
NEW YORK – Recent revelations that the US killed an innocent American in a drone strike in Pakistan confirm what a new study, “Death by Drone,” of civilian harm caused by US drone strikes in Yemen shows – that claims about the precision of drone strikes are overstated.
In a May 2013 speech at the National Defense University, Obama offered assurances that, outside the Afghan war theater, no drone strike would be carried out unless there was “near-certainty that no civilians will be killed or injured.”
As Yaslem Saeed bin Ishaq, whose son was killed in a US drone strike in Wadi Sir on August 1, 2013, observed, “They just kill.
Or that Abdoh Mohammed al-Jarraah’s house in Silat al-Jarraah had 19 people, including women and children, inside when it was hit by a US drone strike?
As the father of Nasser Mohammed Nasser, one of four innocent civilians killed in a US drone strike on April 19, 2014, lamented: “My son and those who were with him had nothing to do with Al Qaeda.
Why, then, did the American aircraft strike them?”
Karl Marx would have been proud of them, but it was the Pope’s portrait that hung on the gate of Gdansk’s Lenin Shipyard during the strike.
Indeed, while Israel and the US still disagree on some points – Israel wants to strike this year, while the Obama administration is opposed to military action before facing the voters in November – the two sides are converging on aims and plans.
Displaced by new competition, workers have gone on strike in countries like Korea, where the old "iron bowl" of employment protection has shattered.
The measures led to a police strike, followed by a popular insurrection and an assassination attempt.
Business exasperation with the President's highhandedness led to the announcement of a one-day strike on December 10 th , as well as serious doubts over an international strategy that seemed to favor Osama Bin Laden over George Bush.
To be sure, these measures alone cannot eliminate the possibility that determined terrorists will strike a given school.
The Nigerian initiative should be expanded as quickly as possible to every country where terrorists are likely to strike.
To secure the immediate removal of the Soviet missiles, the US considered two main strategies: a naval blockade or an air strike.
Like the eleventh-century Danish King Canute, who commanded the waves not to strike his throne, and then, setting his throne on the beach, demonstrated the fragility of his empire to the flatterers and dreamers who imagined him to be master of the universe, Macron will have to behave modestly.
According to Saudi Arabia, because the Houthis are backed by Iran, their attempted missile strike was tantamount to an Iranian “act of war.”
The good news is that mayors – in developed and developing countries alike – are no longer waiting for national governments to strike a global climate agreement.
He has been an icon, representing the ability to strike with success against the US and the West.
Indeed, it could even grow somewhat worse in the short run, as there are sure to be those who will want to show that they can still strike against the West.
Instead, Europe’s center-left parties should strike a balance between national and international solidarity with a three-pronged strategy comprising effective limits on immigration, a focus on integration, and humanitarian efforts to ease large-scale human suffering.
LONDON – Last week, US President Donald Trump authorized a targeted military strike on the airfield in Syria from which a chemical attack was launched by Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
That strike marked a significant departure from former President Barack Obama’s widely discredited policy toward Syria – one that could change the Syrian conflict’s rules of engagement, if not its course.
From a military perspective, the main impact of the strike – which apparently destroyed 20% of Assad’s operational aircraft in less than an hour – will be to boost deterrence, though to what extent remains unclear.
If China applies Coase’s institutional insights to develop an effective development framework, it may well manage to strike this crucial balance.
The first, more plausible option is to strike bilateral deals.
And, rather than promoting caution and stability in the region, Iran or Israel could be tempted to strike first in a crisis.
At the opposite end of the spectrum of policy choices is a preventive attack: a military strike (most likely by Israel, the US, or both) against sites in Iran associated with its nuclear program.
Iran is now permitting Russian long-range bombers to using one of its air bases to strike Syria, complicating Obama’s already-strenuous effort to reach an understanding with Russian President Vladimir Putin on ending the civil war.
NEW YORK – Zimbabwe’s election appears, once again, to confirm a truism: Africa only seems to make international headlines when disasters strike – a drought, a coup, a war, a genocide, or, as in the case of Robert Mugabe, grossly incompetent government.
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