When NATO arrived in Afghanistan in 2001, it recognized that its governments had, during the dark nineteen-nineties, ignored the connections between Afghan suffering and international security.
Asia does have a high-tech future but it is not the one its governments are hoping for.All dressed up...For a mild dose of reality, return to Putrajaya.
The bad behavior of its governments does not "delegitimize" it, any more than the bad behavior of the rulers of North Korea, Sudan -- or, indeed, the United States -- "delegitimizes" them.
But it illustrates the contagion of a movement determined not to allow its governments to treat its citizens as subjects.
None of its governments have proved able, or even willing, to seriously combat it.
But Italy's politics is unusually hard to fathom just as its governments have been unusually fragile.
Its governments' foreign-exchange reserves of almost $800 billion dwarf those of all other regions.
The challenge has not yet been met, either by the world's humanitarian agencies or its governments.
Israel's unions are stronger than England's, and its governments are weaker.
This is what Latvia has in abundance, and what brings down its governments.
Civil libertarians complain that its governments have driven growth at the expense of political freedom.
