The Korea Herald

[Dr. John Lee] Beijing’s impotence in Libya

Sept 9, 2011

In a recent article published by China’s official Xinhua news agency, the Paris Conference on Libya’s political transition and future without Muammar Gaddafi was decried as a “West-dominated meeting” seeking to entrench American and European interests by maintaining a pre-eminent role for NATO. Alth
For economy, real slam dunk is debt forgiveness

Sept 8, 2011

U.S. homeowners don’t need another reduction in their mortgage payments. What they need is a break on their debts. As President Barack Obama prepares to present his job-creation plans to Congress this week, his advisers are studying what some economists have called a “slam-dunk stimulus.” The idea:
[Michael Mandelbaum] Recapturing spirit of Sept. 12

Sept 8, 2011

WASHINGTON, D.C. ― The terrorist attacks on the United States 10 years ago provoked a powerful reaction: the dispatch of American troops, first to Afghanistan and then to Iraq, and the creation of a sprawling new federal agency, the Department of Homeland Security, to coordinate and supervise measur
[Woo Jung-yeop] Public understanding of Nuclear Security Summit

Sept 8, 2011

The Nuclear Security Summit, scheduled for March 2012, will bring approximately 50 heads of state to Seoul. It will be the single largest gathering of world leaders in South Korea in the nation’s history. While the G20 aided Korea’s recognition as a developed country, the NSS will propel the country
[Margaret Carlson] Like dog days of summer, Palin is fading away

Sept 8, 2011

Sarah Palin is learning that attention is a depreciating asset. Her latest melodrama revolved around whether she would show up at a Tea Party event in Iowa on Saturday. In the end, she did. Yet that only begged a question: Does anyone, including Republican primary voters, still care? In 2009, Palin
[Linda P. Campbell] Texas mother’s hard-luck lessons through Allentown

Sept 8, 2011

Driving couldn’t possibly be worse than heading toward Allentown on an unfamiliar, dark highway, with walls of rain splashing away decent visibility and tractor-trailers barreling by with no regard for the treacherous road conditions.It was Thursday last week, and you’d have thought Hurricane Irene
[Shlomo Ben Ami] WMD-free zone in Middle East

Sept 8, 2011

MADRID ― Twenty-five years ago, at a summit in Rejkjavik, Iceland, U.S. President Ronald Reagan stunned the world and his Soviet counterpart, Mikhail Gorbachev, by proposing global and comprehensive elimination of all nuclear weapons. Unfortunately, the skepticism of the United States’ defense estab
Sarkozy’s pro-NATO policy more than symbolism

Sept 7, 2011

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has ushered in a new era of cooperation with a foreign policy that brings the country closer to the U.S. than it has been in decades. Vive la France. The fall of Muammar Qaddafi’s brutal dictatorship in Libya wouldn’t have been possible without Sarkozy’s leadership.
[Joseph E. Stiglitz] The price of 9/11 terror attacks

Sept 7, 2011

NEW YORK ― The September 11, 2001, terror attacks by al-Qaida were meant to harm the United States, and they did, but in ways that Osama bin Laden probably never imagined. President George W. Bush’s response to the attacks compromised America’s basic principles, undermined its economy, and weakened
[Iain McCalman] Australia’s refugee uproar ignores founding story

Sept 7, 2011

They came great distances across dangerous seas in overcrowded ships to land at various points on the coast. More than 800 boats made it during an 80-year period, each carrying fragile human cargoes. Lack of sanitation, poor food and disease were commonplace, sexual and other forms of violence were
[William Pesek] A $31 billion loss creates the biggest tea party

Sept 7, 2011

Few people in their right mind would find any good in a $31 billion loss. In India’s case, it may just be the best thing that has happened in a very long time. Let’s flash forward 20 years to what school kids will learn about recent events. Sure, they may hear about Anna Hazare, the anti-corruption
[Naomi Wolf] Charles Dickens and David Cameron’s great expectations

Sept 7, 2011

NEW YORK ― As I listened to the news coming out of England after the recent wave of urban riots ― and as I read Robert Douglas-Fairhurst’s compelling new biography of Charles Dickens, “Becoming Dickens” ― life and art seemed to be echoing each other.In the wake of the riots, British Prime Minister D
[Dick Polman] Cantor, GOP playing Scrooge with disaster relief

Sept 6, 2011

The ethos of Ebenezer Scrooge is now infecting federal disaster relief.It was inevitable that this bipartisan practice ― helping storm-tossed Americans, regardless of the cost ― would become politicized. After all, if ``tea party’’ Republicans would hold the debt ceiling hostage, in exchange for a h
[Lee Jae-min] After all, packaging matters

Sept 6, 2011

The color blue is an appetite suppressant, so if you wish to reduce weight you may want to put a bluish picture of your favorite food right beside the dining table or even dye your food blue, if you can. So went an interesting TV news program a couple of days ago. Blue is associated with the bitter
[Stephen L. Carter] Both parties misunderstand taxes, sacrifice

Sept 6, 2011

Taxes are in bad political odor these days. True, there has been no era in which taxation was popular, but we seem to have reached a moment of particular confusion. We have one major party dedicated to the bizarre principle that nothing that is not taxed now should ever be taxed again, and another d