The global economic crisis has revealed the folly of large U.S. budget and trade deficits, as well as of the strong dollar that makes them possible. If it is serious about recovery, the United States must balance the budget, stimulate private saving, and embrace a declining dollar.
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civilians & war?
A very catchy headline and yes, a pertinent question here. Where are the civilians? What would be a civilian? Many states that are galvanized in many senses - for one war or the other; quixotic or real - have not only a militarization of minds but would also find it better for future security. Many states that have compulsory military service would know what one is talking of and about here.
Yet the question is profound in that sense - of the quest for the civilian and perchance a world that is free from such fears. Of states that can foster generations that grow in the city-state of Atlantis (as some Utopia of negative freedom & positive peace) and not Sparta!
Would Sparta be a dreadful thought for civilians and their existences or would we need a re-imagination of what it really means to be a civilian? Maybe both.
But the question remains profound here. But I am in New Delhi, South Asia and civilian and crime may seem synonymous here - as terms of political socialization!
civilians & war?
But the question remains profound here. But I am in New Delhi, South Asia and civilian and crime may seem synonymous here - as terms of political socialization!