One White House veteran says "it never felt like we pivoted away from the Middle East.
But if the building is well pivoted to reduce friction, that requires surprisingly little power.
It had several little-known exits that connected to tunnels, built a century earlier when the surrounding land housed a palace, some said to lead all the way to Tahrir Square.Today one can still descend to the vaulted cellar and inspect two wooden panels one holding glasses behind a well-stocked bar that may be unlocked with a small key and pivoted from floor to ceiling to permit a discreet exit.
And if the fight with IS broke Iraq into sectarian pieces, semi-autonomous Kurdistan would achieve long-dreamed-of independence.That sentiment disappeared at the beginning of August when, possibly as a result of resistance to the south, IS pivoted to take on the Peshmerga, the Kurdish armed forces.
In suggesting that terrorism remained the biggest security threat to America, he raised questions about whether American strategy had "pivoted" at all.But China may have noticed that it also said that America "must always lead on the world stage" and would "use military force, unilaterally if necessary...when the security of our allies is in danger".
He could have pointed out ad nauseum that America has actually outperformed the typical post-crisis economy, that it has outperformed almost every other major developed country since the crisis, that Britain, which pivoted more quickly to austerity, fell back into recession this year.
The president made no reference to the rebalance, and, in suggesting that terrorism remained the biggest security threat to America, raised questions about whether American strategy had "pivoted" at all.
The price that arises out of the market, then, is by definition the correct one.Clifford Russell Professor emeritus of economics Vanderbilt University Nashville, TennesseeSIR – You have published a special report on climate change (December 5th) that is pivoted on the apparent acceptance of projections based on data that neither you nor I have been allowed to see or question openly.
Within a couple years, America, Britain and Europe had all pivoted from stimulus to austerity.
Katrina was the final wake-up call, making the Dutch face up to both the unreliability of forecasts of once-in-a-century events and the impossibility of their repeating the American feat of evacuating a million people.The country's philosophy of flood control has as a result pivoted from building ever higher dykes to instead making its cities and countryside more resilient to floodwaters.
But what Mr Wilson gently manipulated, Mr Blair span outrageously.The further New Labour pivoted towards the middle-class-populated centre ground, the louder its members trumpeted their football love.
