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A China that trades extensively with the U.S. and its Asian neighbors will think twice before it pursues any policy that would place those relationships at risk. Likewise, trade between India and Pakistan could contribute to the normalization of ties between these long-estranged neighbors.
America must reduce its fiscal deficit, modernize its infrastructure, and improve its schools.
American influence in the world depends on the ability to act with real capacity and set an example that others will want to follow. This all takes resources.
American presidents get to make lots of choices, with one critical exception: what awaits them in the in-box on top of the desk in the Oval Office.
Americans never would alter the way entitlement programs are funded or education administered without serious study and widespread debate.
Americans were happy to buy vast quantities of relatively inexpensive Chinese manufactured goods, demand for which provided jobs for the tens of millions of Chinese who moved from poor agricultural areas to new or rapidly expanding cities.
Americans, for their part, must accept that a strong Europe will not be content to simply do America's bidding.
America's armed forces are an essential background to much of what the U.S. accomplishes internationally.
An open, market-oriented, and peaceful Iraq could also advance reform and growth across the entire region.
Any time you use military force, you have got to have a clear purpose that military forces can achieve.
Bad situations can always get worse.
Black markets exist any time there is a profit to be made.
Campaigning and governing are two very different activities, and there is no reason to assume that how Trump conducted the former will dictate how he approaches the latter.
Democracy requires an informed citizenry able to question its government.
Difficult choices, unlike red wine, rarely improve with age.
Diplomacy can and will matter; little is inevitable in international relations.
Dissent is as American as cherry pie.
Dissent is difficult. It can constitute a real dilemma for the person who disagrees.
Donald Trump's United States is not isolationist. He has authorized the use of limited military force against the Syrian government in a manner his predecessor rejected.
Europeans must shed their illusions about what they can accomplish in the world on their own. Loose talk about resurrecting a multi-polar world is just that - loose talk.
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