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Can the EU be saved?
William PfaffPARIS -- It is not simply the euro zone that is threatened by the dramatic economic discrepancies that now exist among its members, as well as the large indebtedness gap that exists between the southern members of the zone and the German-led bloc of...Tags: Enrico Letta, European Central Bank, United Kingdom, Paris (France), Conservative Party (UK)
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US weighs Syrian intervention, despite the consequences
William PfaffPARIS -- The present debate in the United States over making policy for a Middle East that has been profoundly changed by the events of the past three years unhappily echoes past policies that failed. They were intended to promote democracy and usually...Tags: Benjamin Netanyahu, George W. Bush, Bashar Assad, Religious Conflicts, Pakistan
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More union in the EU doubtful
William PfaffPARIS -- Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel has consistently said that the answer to Europe's problems is more political integration, and this is a view held elsewhere among those trying to find a way out of the conundrum that the economic crisis has...Tags: Conservation, Voting, International Organizations, Parliament, Germany
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Half-baked theories continue to direct global history
William PfaffPARIS -- The blood runs cold when one fully appreciates how vulnerable official policymakers and the Western policy community is to slogans and to magical thinking. The Reinhart-Rogoff case is the latest, and certainly will not be the last, in which the...Tags: George W. Bush, Teaching and Learning, BBC, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), European Debt Crisis
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A right and proper death of the euro
William PfaffPARIS -- When the proposal was initially made for a common European currency, it seemed to this writer to be a good idea, with the flaw that it wouldn't work. Although inexpert in economics (being a product of the age of arithmetic), it struck me as an...Tags: American Civil War (1861-1865), Tea Party Movement, European Central Bank, International Organizations, Market and Exchange
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Anonymous murder from a safe distance
William PfaffPARIS -- War is war and murder is murder. The law draws the distinction. The American armed drone is a weapons system of war, not of policemen. And even if it were a police weapon (as it may, one fears, become in the future), the United States...Tags: George W. Bush, U.S. Department of Defense, Religious Conflicts, U.S. Congress, September 11, 2001 Attacks
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When are goals ever truly realized in international affairs?
William PfaffPARIS -- It is, I suppose, too discouraging to face the fact that in international affairs (and indeed in national affairs; but that is another subject) paradox and contradiction rule the world. Policymakers and politicians consistently get what they don'...Tags: Conservation, Japan, Pakistan, Nuclear Weapons, Germany
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The honorable absurdity of a soldier's role
William PfaffPARIS -- Ten years ago, invading American troops were moving through stifling dust storms towards Baghdad from Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, which British forces were fighting to secure. Baghdad's outskirts were reached on April 3, and the Baghdad...Tags: George W. Bush, Benjamin Netanyahu, Baghdad (Iraq), The New York Times, Government
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New century is off to a wobbly start
William PfaffPARIS -- This certainly is not the best of times, nor can it be called the worst of recent times, considering the years of totalitarianism, war and cold war the world lived through in the 20th century, recently closed. But the years since 2000 have...Tags: Benjamin Netanyahu, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Conservative Political Action Conference, George H.W. Bush
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Bin Laden's influence lives on after him
William PfaffPARIS -- A day will undoubtedly come when Osama bin Laden will occupy the same place in 21st century history books as Gavrilo Princip holds in the histories of the 20th Century. Both committed acts that provoked great wars, brought down empires and...Tags: Separation of Church and State, Religious Conflicts, New York City, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Saudi Arabia
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Swiss curb executive greed, will anyone follow?
William PfaffPARIS -- Switzerland just had a referendum in which it voted to give company and bank shareholders veto rights over the salaries, bonuses and overall compensation packages of senior executives and board directors. Bonuses will be prohibited for...Tags: CEO Pay, Globalization, U.S. Elections, Tea Party Movement, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
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Americans fear Iran, but there is much to learn from Cuba
William PfaffPARIS -- A Gallup poll issued this month says that 99 percent of the American public now has become convinced that Iran's civilian nuclear program will threaten "the vital interests of the United States in the next ten years." Eighty-three percent say...Tags: Benjamin Netanyahu, International Military Interventions, Korean War (1950-1953), Raul Castro, U.S. Congress
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