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After a decade of war, we are now humbler, wiser, I hope – but more determined to turn the page, to work with the countries and peoples of Southeast Europe not to escape their neighborhood, but to transform it.
Foreign-policy debate in the US has become a proxy for who is “tougher,” which does not necessarily mean wiser.
Sheltered from any economic crisis – because wiser capitalism has eliminated financial crisis – France has full employment.
At the heart of the US Constitution – which was shaped by the American Founders’ experience with British imperial overreach – is a belief that many people, working through consensus, are wiser than one person.
So it may well be wiser to induce Iraq to readmit the UN weapons inspectors and make sure they can do their job.
Given the structure of the problem – sequential decision-making with uncertainty about all the relevant parameters (including costs, the efficient pattern of mitigation, and technology) – it would be wiser to adopt a more flexible strategy that provides incentives and regulations to achieve measurable intermediate progress, while generating a lot of useful information along the way.
After World War II, however, Germany was the recipient of vastly wiser concessions by the US government, culminating in consensual debt relief in 1953, an action that greatly benefitted Germany and the world.
Instead, the US would be wiser to limit itself to a narrower counterterrorism mission, one akin to what is being done in Somalia and Yemen (and, to some extent, in Pakistan).
This may be the wiser course in many cases, but it is hardly inspiring.
In such cases, silence may be wiser than speculation.
We have gone from one extreme to the other, whereas a middle road would be wiser.
Instead of seeking definitive global judgments about the risks of particular choices, it is wiser to consider the assumptions behind such advice – since these are central in determining the conditions under which the advice is relevant.
Those who act first will be the wiser – and wealthier – for it.
Many will no doubt argue about which alternative – France’s bet on nuclear power or Germany’s solar pathway – is wiser.
The Western aim of building Afghanistan up as a stable and more or less democratic state is extremely ambitious; it may be wiser to help stabilize Kabul and the relatively quiet northern part of the country.
Grand plans, he says, will only end in a muddle, so it would be wiser to accept reality and draw the right conclusions from it: Europe should abandon efforts to create a federation.
No wiser than sacrificing all to convenience (real or marketed) is equating convenience with functionality.
It will also enable them to make wiser decisions on critically important matters of public policy, and to be far more creative and effective members of the work force.
They, together with wiser European leaders elsewhere, understand that this will require the appropriate forms of solidarity, including a unified foreign policy that can address the problems in Europe’s neighborhood.
The ANU’s decision looks like a sage one to anyone not in thrall to oil and gas companies, and it will only look wiser with the passing of time.
The rest of the world would be wiser instead to reaffirm the country’s efforts to pursue a purely peaceful nuclear energy program and to work within NATO to seek a resolution of the Iranian challenge.
But Israel, with its vastly stronger army, could and should have taken much wiser political decisions than occupying the West Bank with settlers.
A wiser strategy would have been to boost investment by using financial intermediation to allocate these funds to firms that are being crowded out of domestic capital markets by excessively high borrowing costs.
And so the shrillness continues, with the public no wiser for it.
It would have been far wiser to resist the entreaties coming from both the Israeli and Palestinian sides to solve the conflict and stick with the more modest step-by-step approach that had been shown to work.
Were those young men who returned home then wiser than today's Saudi youth?
In the past 11 months, we have been told repeatedly that “Brexit means Brexit” – a phrase that leaves one none the wiser as to what Brexit actually means.
Rowhani promised to sustain progress on the nuclear program while adopting stronger and wiser diplomatic measures to prevent the imposition of new sanctions and pave the way for lifting the existing ones.
Burke was a conservative whose insistence on elected representatives’ duty to exercise their own judgment was grounded in the belief that they are likely to be better informed and wiser than their constituents, and will restrain their excesses.
One can only hope that in this century, wiser heads will prevail, and that economic sanctions lead to bargaining, not violence.
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