What can be done? In my view, Saudi Arabia, the Arab world's real heavyweight, should join its Gulf partners in offering Iran a wideranging security pact. The Arabs would guarantee not to allow their territory to be used for a U.S. attack on Iran, while Iran would guarantee not to use Shi'a communities to destabilize the existing political order in the region. In Iran, the United States is in danger of making an even graver mistake than in Iraq and Afghanistan. It began by handing Iran two precious gifts: the (temporary) defeat of the Taliban and the overthrow of Saddam Hussein. This freed Iran from old enemies and potential threats on both its flanks, allowing it to emerge as a leading power in the Gulf, with extensions into the Levant by means of the Tehran-Damascus-Hizbullah axis. As...
Using linked administrative data from program and earnings records, we summarize the 2007 employment rates of working-age (18–64) Social Security disability program beneficiaries at the national and state levels, as well as changes in employment since 1996. Substantial variation exists within the population. Disability Insurance beneficiaries and those younger than age 40 were much more likely to work relative to other Social Security beneficiaries. There are also strong regional differences in the employment rates among disability beneficiaries of working age, and these differences are persistent over time.
Taiwan, the Spratly Islands, and the Korean peninsula are the three major areas of regional disputes involving China. Chinese hegemony will continue unless other Asian states can force China into collective negotiations by making the costs of refusing to negotiate outweigh the benefits of expansion. However, Chinese expansion is likely to be held in check by internal problems and weaknesses within its military.
Extra security measures will be taken in the Franklin Regional school district today after a bomb threat in a note found at 6:50 a.m. yesterday led to an evacuation of the high school and middle school. A high school student discovered the note on a pedestrian bridge near an off-site student parking area on Tarr Hollow Road, according to the Murrysville Police Department.
KUWAIT CITY, Nov. 11, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Speaking at the ninth meeting of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Joint Defence Council, First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defence Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, called on the member nations to commit to the Peninsula Shield Force to prepare for military challenges facing the Arabian Gulf nations. Sheikh Jaber, the host of the conference of the six countries that in addition to Kuwait include Bahrain, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), told his fellow ministers that the conference would give priority to the security of the GCC against external threats because "contiguous vigilance" and a uniform military strategy was imperative.
The Israeli government is nervous about a serious shift in the U.S. administration's attitude towards an extended, worsening and hazardous occupation. The White House expects Israel to freeze illegal building of housing in occupied Palestinian territories and to come to the peace table. But Israel insists that it is not ready to stop building on "liberated" land. Tension between Tel Aviv and Washington is mounting. Sentiment against Israel's defiance of international law has been growing slowly within the UJS., and more so in Europe. In response, [Netanyahu] has been trying hard to shift world attention from IsraelPalestine to Iran. He has partially succeeded. By reviving the image of Iran as tiie center of the "axis of evil," the Israeli occupation has been downplayed. This diplomatic ...
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