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But what strikes me most about China’s economy is how remarkable it is.
It will be mainly such elements that will have the capacity to launch major transnational terrorist attacks, like the 2008 Mumbai strikes.
Those strikes would not have succeeded had Israel not been able to identify the targets accurately.
On October 17, despite pleas for patience and restraint from Iraq and the US, Turkish lawmakers voted 507-19 to authorize Erdogan to order cross-border military strikes into Iraq at any time over the next year.
But, for several reasons, the Turkish military is likely to limit its operations to small-scale incursions and air strikes on specific targets rather than launch an all-out war.
There are risks for Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki as well, because Turkish military strikes on Iraq’s northern provinces could undermine the Kurdish support on which his government increasingly depends.
Similarly, the threat of US military strikes did little to concentrate Kim’s mind: even Western analysts do not find that threat credible.
In the name of the “global war on terror,” they have tolerated torture; accepted – and even endorsed – the illegal invasion of Iraq; and allowed innocent civilians to become collateral damage of mechanical drone strikes.
Both sides must continually determine, before disaster strikes, whether existing laws provide scientists and administrators with clear, realistic standards for their analyses and public communications.
That just strikes me as a protection racket.
The conflict is already spilling into the streets, with opposition-called strikes paralyzing daily life in large parts of Nepal.
And, unless the constitutional crisis is resolved soon, the strikes will be only the beginning.
Similarly, at the start of 2018, many French commentators seemed to think that we were approaching another “May 1968” or “December 1995,” when mass strikes and street protests paralyzed the entire country.
Although there have been limited strikes against French President Emmanuel Macron’s reform agenda, these commentators got it wrong.
Second, US military strikes on Syria have the potential to engulf the entire region – and perhaps the US – in a broader war.
US military strikes against Syria would further fuel extremism and result in widespread atrocities by the rebels against Syrians of all faiths.
What strikes me as dangerous is that the issue of peace – the motor that has driven European integration from the start – rarely comes up in the debate about what to do in the wake of these events.
If some future event strikes an emotional chord, the public’s mood could swing dramatically.
Strikes were called, newspapers halted publication, and fears of widespread insurrection remain high.
Power cuts and public-service strikes are a regular feature of daily life.
Through the massive influx of refugees, the disorder in the Middle East strikes at the heart of Europe.
Obama acknowledged that innocent people had been killed in US drone attacks, but defended the strikes on the grounds that by eliminating Al Qaeda operatives, they have disrupted terrorist plots and saved lives.
He pointed out that the number of Muslims killed by Al Qaeda’s terrorist attacks “dwarfs any estimate of civilian casualties from drone strikes.”
Nor – and here he has reversed himself since 2007 – is “putting boots on the ground” likely to cause fewer civilian casualties than drone strikes.
Since that speech, the frequency of strikes in Yemen and Pakistan has declined, but civilian casualties have continued, albeit at a lower rate.
Moreover, cervical cancer strikes women during their most economically productive years, when their contribution to society and the economy is greatest.
The legally and diplomatically controversial options of preventive strikes (against a gathering threat) and preemptive strikes (against an imminent threat) make them easier to propose than to implement.
It severed relations with Afghanistan’s Taliban regime, which it had helped to install five years earlier, and allowed America to use its air space to launch strikes on Afghanistan.
Ideally, punitive strikes such as these would deter Syria’s government, or any other, from ever using chemical weapons again in violation of the Chemical Weapons Convention.
Military action to enforce the international norm against the use of chemical weapons is legitimate and welcome, as was the decision to coordinate the response with allies and to threaten additional strikes if chemical weapons were used again.
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