Unwilling
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With popular resistance to paying for profligate southern Europeans rising in Germany and Holland, governments there might be forced to ask their people whether they want to pay the huge costs implied by their commitments to bail out eurozone members that are
unwilling
or unable to pay.
But Europeans, while having launched national recovery plans, remain
unwilling
to take on a similar debt risk.
The journalist Martin Woolacott describes Myanmar as a “halfway house between military and civilian rule,” observing that the country’s generals have been promising to complete the transition to democracy for several years now, yet remain
unwilling
to allow Suu Kyi to run for President.
Currently, the West seems
unwilling
to focus on the problem of a European order.
But most member states are
unwilling
to contemplate anything that far-reaching.
Every country, however, has special sensitivities: the Germans are
unwilling
to be outvoted on immigration; the French are
unwilling
to be outvoted on trade in services; the British are
unwilling
to be outvoted on taxation.
First, inflation is likely to remain very low, with many more years of high unemployment bearing down on prices and the European Central Bank
unwilling
to pursue the aggressive monetary easing needed to raise them (making it difficult to reduce the real value of the country’s debt burden).
The United States and Europe (both European Union member governments and the EU itself) are the largest contributors to the UN High Commission on Refugees, but many other governments are
unwilling
to commit their fair share.
The political reality, though, is that most governments are
unwilling
to commit to take in any specific number or percentage of the world’s refugees.
But,
unwilling
to challenge the domestic political consensus on fiscal austerity, Merkel refused to invest in Germany’s future, say, by repairing decaying infrastructure and upgrading educational opportunities.
The essay focused on established facts and testimony -- yet it met an audience
unwilling
to accept this.
Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Qatar are
unwilling
to support any solution that includes Assad.
Too many political leaders around the world remain unable – or
unwilling
– to fulfill their economic-governance responsibilities.
As long as the United States and the West Enropeans are
unwilling
to set up new Atlantic institutions to further their economic and political relations, all those promising ideas of coperation will wither.
Unfortunately, the IMF in recent years has proved unable or
unwilling
to do so.
Going slow on such an obvious “win-win” reform suggests either that each country attaches little importance to its growth imperative or that they are
unwilling
to address that urgency by coming to grips with the increasingly insidious trust deficit that divides them.
Both are
unwilling
to concede that Kurds form a distinct ethnic group, let alone a nation.
Divided by sectarianism, Iraq’s armed forces have become unable and
unwilling
to fight.
Not surprisingly, central bankers who are committed to a formal or informal inflation target of about 2% per year are
unwilling
to abandon their mandates openly and to assert that they are pursuing a high rate of inflation.
The UN acknowledges the problem but is (rightly)
unwilling
to risk sending forestry experts into a tribal region where American and allied troops venture only in armored convoys.
And a final trend is the gradual erosion of property rights, which has left Russian businessmen
unwilling
to invest in the country.
The core idea was simple: stop arguing for a “right to intervene,” which inevitably generates a backlash, and talk instead about “responsibility” – that of every state to protect its own citizens from atrocities, but also that of the wider international community to act if a state is unable or
unwilling
to do so.
So long as Pakistan’s government remains either unable or
unwilling
to push back against the so-called “non-state actors” that are said to be out of its control, why should India pursue the dialogue that it called off in 2008?
In both places, other policymaking entities, with much better tools at their disposal, appear either
unwilling
or unable to play their part.
Western democracies are
unwilling
to irritate important allies in the counter-terrorism struggle simply because they might be violating the rights of their own citizens.
Even the US has said that it would be
unwilling
to negotiate a separate free-trade deal with the UK.
But, despite all these benefits, politicians are generally
unwilling
to accept that money can be earned honestly from those at the bottom of the income pyramid.
A pessimist would say that Europeans are unable – or at least
unwilling
– to rethink their defense policy, because the US ultimately ensures their security through NATO.
The real reason why the northern Europeans have been
unwilling
to provide a “big bazooka” – that is, extend more financial assistance to Southern Europe – is that they don’t trust the beneficiaries to use it wisely.
Yet, the very speed with which American society has progressed has threatened half of the country, older and mostly white, unable and
unwilling
to live in the present.
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