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Globalist: The Public Imperative

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Roger Cohen - Oct. 06 (Opinion) - Whatever may be right, something is rotten in American medicine. It should be fixed. But fixing it requires the acknowledgment that, when it comes to health, we’re all in this together. Pooling the risk between everybody is the most efficient way to forge a healthier society.

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Europe's Verdict on the Georgia War

Sat, 03 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - Oct. 03 (Opinion) - Comments that include profanity or personal attacks or other inappropriate comments or material will be removed from the site. Additionally, entries that are unsigned or contain "signatures" by someone other than the actual author will be removed.

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A Better Missile Defense for a Safer Europe

Sun, 20 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Robert M. Gates - Sep. 20 (Opinion) - The new missile defense proposal will give needed capacity earlier than the original plan, and will provide more robust protection against longer-range threats.

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The fog of war

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Economist - Aug. 13 (Opinion) - ONE year after the Georgian war, its outcome is as debatable as the cause. Depending on where you stand, the war can be seen as the sinister culmination of a systematic provocation by a neo-imperialist Russia or as a murderously aggressive gambit by a

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Health, American-Style

Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Slate - By Jacob Weisberg - Jul. 18 (Opinion) - America's system has become wildly unfair and expensive. In fixing it, Reid says, we should follow other countries where health care is fairer, cheaper, and produces better results. He's right that we can learn much from practices elsewhere—why, for instance, can't we have those nifty smart cards the French use instead of paper records?

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The Twitter revolution that wasn't.

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Slate - By Anne Applebaum - Apr. 22 (Opinion) - It sounded too good to be true—and it was. Alas, it is now becoming clear that there was no Twitter revolution in Moldova, and not merely because there are only a handful of registered Twitter users in the whole country.

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Turkey's scheming in Strasbourg shows it doesn't belong in the European Union.

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Slate - By Christopher Hitchens - Apr. 21 (Opinion) - The most underreported story of the month must surely be the announcement by French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner that he no longer supports the accession of Turkey as a full member of the European Union. His reasoning was very simple and intelligible, and it has huge implications for the Barack Obama "make nice" school of diplomacy.

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The Obamas take Europe

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Week - Apr. 13 (Opinion) - President Obama this week wrapped up one of the more productive and substance-filled presidential trips to Europe in recent history—but at times it felt more like two love-struck teenagers on a giddy first date. Europeans, still blinking in joy and disbelief at the sudden end of the Bush era, showered Obama with affection from London to Strasbourg to Prague, and Obama returned the sentiment, showing more respect for—and comfort with—the Old World than any president since John F. Kennedy.

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A Mixed Verdict on Obama's Afghan Plans

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Dan Froomkin - Apr. 07 (Comment) - Despite a glowing reception and widespread praise for Mr. Obama’s style and aims, his calls for a more lasting European troop increase for Afghanistan were politely brushed aside, as they had been in negotiations leading up to the meeting....

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G-20 And The Limits Of Cooperation

Sat, 04 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

National Journal - By Clive Crook - Apr. 04 (Opinion) - The London summit of the Group of 20 industrial and emerging economies was a missed opportunity from the start. The previous summit, in Washington in November, took place after the election but before President Obama was sworn in. That timing furnished an easy excuse for failing to get much done.

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The soft power scorecard: Europe 1, America 0 By

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Foreign Policy - By Peter Feaver - Apr. 02 (Opinion) - It has been interesting to see how quickly the Obama administration has retreated from some of the more extravagant soft power claims that greeted it during the honeymoon period.

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Thank God America Isn't Like Europe -- Yet

Sun, 22 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Charles Murray - Mar. 22 (Opinion) - Do we want the United States to be like Europe? The European model has worked in many ways. I am delighted whenever I get a chance to go to Stockholm or Amsterdam, not to mention Rome or Paris. There's a lot to like -- a lot to love -- about day-to-day life in Europe. But I argue that the answer to this question is "no." Not for economic reasons. I want to focus on another problem with the European model: namely, that it drains too much of the life from life.

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U.S. turning into Europe untrue, but wouldn't be all bad

Sun, 22 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Philadelphia Inquirer - By Dick Polman - Mar. 22 (Opinion) - I can't fathom the new GOP hue and cry about how President Obama is supposedly trying to "Europeanize" the U.S.A. Think about it: If they couldn't successfully discredit his '08 candidacy by linking him to our terrorist enemies, how can they possibly discredit his '09 domestic agenda by linking him to our friends? But apparently that's their message du jour. Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell warns of "the Europeanization of America," Newt Gingrich warns of "European-style socialism," 2012 hopeful Mitt Romney warns that America might morph into "government-dominated Europe," and a top conservative Web site has sounded the alarm by posting a photo of the Swedish flag, which perhaps is intended to warn us that, failing vigilance, we, too, will be saddled with onerous un-American concepts such as cradle-to-grave health care.

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Economic Optimism From Australia's Prime Minister

Sat, 21 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By David Ignatius - Mar. 21 (Opinion) - There's still a wide gap between American views (more stimulus!) and European (more regulation!), and many of China's policies remain a mystery. But as Rudd says, it's at least modestly reassuring that the G-20 will be the forum, China will be a player and America will be back in a leadership role.

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The Threat of Protectionism

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Wall Street Journal - By Katinka Barysch - Nov. 30 (Opinion) - The EU's task is therefore to help China to become a "responsible global stakeholder." Barack Obama may eschew George W. Bush's unilateral tendencies. But the EU still has more credibility when it comes to defending multilateral rules than America will have for a while. So the prospect of EU-China relations deteriorating over the question of who sees the Dalai Lama and where is worrying. The fact that China is willing to cancel a summit with the EU -- its most important export market and a key source of capital and technology -- shows Beijing's surging self-confidence, as well as its short-sightedness.

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World confronts a choice between chaos and order

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Financial Times - By Philip Stephens - Nov. 22 (Opinion) - When Barack Obama won the Democratic nomination for the presidency he expected Iraq and healthcare would be the priorities of his presidency. No one told him the banks were facing bankruptcy and the US an economic shock as severe as any since the Great Crash.

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Russia Out of Rehab

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Opinion Journal (WSJ) - Nov. 18 (Editorial) - Russia needed only a few days this August to drive Georgia's army into retreat. In the aftermath, Europe has held out only a bit longer than Tbilisi's troops.

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The stakes are high for Barack Obama but so too are the opportunities

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - Nov. 06 (Editorial) - Eight years of failed foreign policy is enough. Enough lives have been lost, enough countries ruined, by doing things the other way. America, welcome back into the world.

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Europe Hopes for Change

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Weekly Standard - By Irwin M. Stelzer - Nov. 06 (Opinion) - Europe rejoices. The wish of its political elites and most Europeans has been granted. Barack Hussein Obama is the president-elect, and on January 20 will be sworn in as the 44th president of the United States of America.

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Capitalism at bay

Sat, 18 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Economist - Oct. 18 (Editorial) - Now economic liberty is under attack and capitalism, the system which embodies it, is at bay. This week Britain, the birthplace of modern privatisation, nationalised much of its banking industry; meanwhile, amid talk of the end of the Thatcher-Reagan era, the American government has promised to put $250 billion into its banks.

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Jacques Barrot on immigration: ‘member states are compelled to solidarity’

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Cafe Babel - Oct. 17 (Interview) - Stopping in Paris for a citizen hearing on 2 October, the vice president of the European commission, and head of the ‘Justice, Freedom and Security’ directorate general, on the controversial path of the EU's immigration policies. Interview

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Metrosexual Healing

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Foreign Policy - By Blake Hounshell - Sep. 23 (Opinion) - It's doubtful even Obama, whose recent statements on Russia have mirrored the administration's, can convince Europeans to show some spine. You could almost hear the crickets chirping when the senator told Berliners, "The Afghan people need our troops and your troops," a sentiment little different from what Bush had been expressing for months. But when, a couple of beats later, he said, "This is the moment when we must renew the goal of a world without nuclear weapons," rapturous applause ensued. Fantasy beats reality every time.

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European Union right to avoid gamble on risky Ukraine accession

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The Times - By Bronwen Maddox - Sep. 10 (Opinion) - The EU and Nato have both bracketed Ukraine with Georgia in mulling over whether to extend their borders again. The EU did the same with Romania and Bulgaria, treating them almost as a joint application. It would do itself a favour by treating all these countries separately. Ukraine and Georgia are completely different, and so would be the problems of letting them in.

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'If No Common Values Exist, Then Common Interests Take Precedence'

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Radio Free Europe - By Ahto Lobjakas - Sep. 10 (Interview) - British diplomat Robert Cooper, considered one of Europe's preeminent policy strategists, says the EU has reached a state of "postmodern" development in which sovereignty is increasingly pooled -- as opposed to the United States, which remains a staunchly "modern" state, and to the "premodern" failed states with no functioning governments at all. He discussed the implications of the Russia-Georgia conflict for the EU and its future policy toward Russia.

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World probably will not end next Wednesday

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Foreign Policy - Sep. 06 (Opinion) - Next Wednesday, scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Switzerland will switch on the $6 billion Large Hadron Collider, a 27-kilometer particle accelerator that will create physical conditions that haven't existed in the universe since the big bang.

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