Refugees are not seen as people like us, with a right to pursue stability or security, but as human baggage to be removed at the earliest opportunity to territories on which to set down the white man's burden.
As a result, although it will not always be visible in public, the Obama Administration is about to undertake the most realistic, least self-deluding attempt to use American resources and leverage pursue stability in Pakistan in the history of U.S. involvement in South Asia.
Numerous analysts have revised downward their growth projections — HSBC, for example, cut its forecast for this year to 7.4 percent from 8.2 percent — amid signs that Beijing's new leaders are willing to tolerate slower growth in the short term as they pursue stability for the long term.
They must end corruption, meet their obligations to pursue stability, create the conditions for new investment and ensure that resources go to fighting poverty.
"For 60 years," said the visitor, "my country, the United States, pursued stability at the expense of democracy in the Middle East and we achieved neither.
The strategy is a paradox: in pursuing stability, it strengthens the autocrat, but, in strengthening the autocrat, it enables him to further abuse his position, exacerbating the conditions that lead people to take up arms.
Condi Rice had it right when she said in Egypt in 2005: "For 60 years, my country, the United States, pursued stability at the expense of democracy in this region, here in the Middle East, and we achieved neither".
In July 2005, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice traveled to Cairo, where she startled, and thrilled, many in her audience by bluntly declaring that "for 60 years, my country, the United States, pursued stability at the expense of democracy in this region here in the Middle East, and we achieved neither".
But wouldn't it be nice, indeed thrilling, if America's secretary of state went to the University of Cairo, say, and made some simple statement like this:For 60 years my country, the United States, pursued stability at the expense of democracy in the Middle East and we achieved neither.
In 2005 his secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, gave a startling speech in Cairo in which she said that having spent 60 years pursuing stability at the expense of democracy in the Middle East, and achieving neither, America was henceforth supporting the democratic aspirations of all people.
In a major speech in Cairo in 2005, Condoleezza Rice, then Mr. Bush's secretary of state, said that "for 60 years, my country, the United States, pursued stability at the expense of democracy in this region here in the Middle East — and we achieved neither".
