International Issues Outlook
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While at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan, the President met with a platoon who had just lost six members, killed unsuspectedly by an Afghan who had worked alongside them. (December 3, 2010).
Official White House photo by Pete Souza via Flickr
Foreign policy challenges in 2011. A look ahead at the U.S. role in Afghanistan and Pakistan, global economic trends and America’s influence in the world.
Guests
Eswar Prasad
Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution; Tolani SeniorProfessor of Trade Policy, Cornell University; author of "Emerging Markets: Resilience and Growth Amid GlobalTurmoil."
Charles Kupchan
professor of international affairs at Georgetown University and senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, author of the upcoming book, “The Global Turn: The West, The Rise Of The Rest, And The Next World
Nancy Youssef
Pentagon correspondent, McClatchy newspapers.
David Sanger
chief Washington correspondent for The New York Times, author of "The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power."
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I'm extremely disappointed at the way the group just parroted the conventional wisdom from inside the Beltway.
Sanger seemed off base and went unchallenged on so many points it is hard to know where to begin, but here's three:
1. Sanger dismissed savings from multiple continuous wars in the Middle East as insignificant for reducing the national debt. Of course, the powers in Washington are not serious about reducing the debt, as we saw last month with the tax cuts and Social Security cuts bill. But they could put that money to good use for some pro-active jobs programs and in making use of those troops to rebuild some of most damaged cities, like Detroit and New Orleans. As of several years ago when Stiglitz and Bilmes wrote their book on the cost of the wars, it was a conservative $3 trillion. Which seems significant relative to our debt.
2. Sanger dutifully repeats the canard that Social Security is part of the national debt problem. It is not. It is self-funding and because the recent surpluses have been used to fund wars and tax cut it is now owed over $2.3 trillion. It is solvent until 2037 and some relatively small increases in taxes paid by the affluent will take care of it much beyond that. Medicare and Medicaid are a different story and the Beltway boys and girls booted that in 2010 with the so-called Obamacare legislation, that does nothing to seriously address the overall health care costs.
3. Sanger listed three ways we are pressuring Iran and the third was a doozy -- that we are working for regime change. What gives us the right or responsibility to do that, except a sense of being the world's imperial bully? Apply some reverse-think and ask ourselves how we would react if Iran, China, or any other country had an announced policy of trying to change the "regime" in the United States?
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I saw her slowly to the table to continue to move forward by 2 inches, and said --- you know what? Do not know the woman has chest?
Japanese designer Hiroshi Fujiwara has frequently collaborated with Nike Sportswear under his fragment design brand and somewhat less often also worked with Hirofumi Kiyonaga from SOPH on their shared uniform experiment label. The former just offered us a pack of mismatched Nike Dunk Highs and soon from the latter we’ll be getting this new uniform experiment x Nike Sportswear project,Nike Air Yeezy, which from the looks of the teaser depicting its heel is either a Nike All Court Mid or Blazer High/Mid. The iconoclastic design leanings continue with a navy blue denim upper contrasted by black leather plus a TV test pattern on the right heel only. Check out more after the jump and stick with Sneaker News for more on the latest uniform experiment x Nike Sportswear collaboration. via LIABN//HS
t’s fitting that a 2011 set to see a revival from the Nike SB Dunk Low, that its first release was the ‘Neon J-Pack’ colorway once believed to be a long lost sample. SB is improving the Dunk’s design and getting back to what made it the hottest sub-label of the last decade, the above pictured colorway echoing one of the all-time greats. The Nike SB Dunk Low ‘Iron’ offers similar construction to the 2003 original,Coach Purse, a University Blue Swoosh separating these from the silver box OG”s royal shade. These should hit retailers in August as part of the Fall 2011 collection, so be sure to stick with Sneaker News for updates. via N-SB
with perforated swooshes, hexagonal lace eyelets, roped laces, and contrast stitching on the toe foxing. The Royal Mid has seen all types of colorways and material-combinations like molded leather, smooth leather, suede,Nike Air Yeezy, and patent leather with some odd color-blocking, but these two keep it nice and simple for casual wear. Nike certainly hit the ‘Lifestyle’ quota with these, giving the Royal Mid a nice head start on being the sleeper of the year for the second year in a row. Cali-Roots has both colorways available so take a look at the detailed images after the jump and head there to cop a pair.
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We get a first look at some of the accessories from the upcoming Black Scale Spring/Summer 2011 Collection. Staying true to the brand,Hockey Jerseys, the jewelry and metal accessories also come in black. The line-up includes keychains and double finger rings,Cleveland Indians Hats, amongst other things. Via 5&ADime.
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