CFR This Week: Friedman Cites Foreign Affairs Article

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> THE WORLD THIS WEEK from the COUNCIL ON FOREIGN  RELATIONS
> April 15, 2005  
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> PRE-RELEASE OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS ARTICLE CITED BY FRIEDMAN IN FRIDAY'S  NYT
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> In today's New York Times, Thomas Friedman's column  highlights "Down to the
> Wire" by Thomas Bleha in the May/June issue of  Foreign Affairs:
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> "Thomas Bleha, a former U.S. Foreign Service officer in Japan, has a
> fascinating piece in the May-June issue of Foreign Affairs that begins like
> this: 'In the first three years of the Bush administration, the United States
> dropped from 4th to 13th place in global rankings of broadband Internet usage.
> Today, most U.S. homes can access only 'basic' broadband, among the slowest,
> most expensive and least reliable in the developed world, and the United
> States has fallen even further behind in mobile-phone-based Internet access.
> The lag is arguably the result of the Bush administration's failure to make a
> priority of developing these networks. In fact, the United States is the only
> industrialized state without an explicit national policy for promoting
> broadband.'"
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> · Full  text of Bleha's article, "Down to the Wire"
> <http://www.uptilt.com/c.html?rtr=on&amp;s=c7q,c8cd,oln,6va3,66qe,h6kd,b3gi>
> · Full  text of Friedman's column, "Bush Disarms Unilaterally"
> <http://www.uptilt.com/c.html?rtr=on&amp;s=c7q,c8cd,oln,8s84,v5a,h6kd,b3gi>

 


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> Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 13:54:57 -0700 (PDT)
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> THE WORLD THIS WEEK from the COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS
> April 15, 2005
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> PRE-RELEASE OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS ARTICLE CITED BY FRIEDMAN IN TODAY'S NYT
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> In today’s New York Times, Thomas Friedman’s column highlights “Down to the Wire” by Thomas Bleha in the May/June issue 
> of Foreign Affairs:
>
> “Thomas Bleha, a former U.S. Foreign Service officer in Japan, has a fascinating piece in the May-June issue of Foreign 
> Affairs that begins like this: ‘In the first three years of the Bush administration, the United States dropped from 4th 
> to 13th place in global rankings of broadband Internet
> usage. Today, most U.S. homes can access only 'basic' broadband, among the slowest, most expensive and least reliable 
> in the developed world, and the United States has fallen even further behind in mobile-phone-based Internet access. The 
> lag is arguably the result of the Bush administration's
> failure to make a priority of developing these networks. In fact, the United States is the only industrialized state 
> without an explicit national policy for promoting broadband.’”
>
> > Full text of Bleha’s article, “Down to the Wire”
> http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20050501faessay84311/thomas-bleha/down-to-the-wire.html
> > Full text of Friedman’s column, “Bush Disarms Unilaterally”
> http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/15/opinion/15friedman.html?
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>
> SHARON: ISRAEL HAS NO PLANS TO ATTACK IRAN’S SUSPECTED NUCLEAR SITES
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> Judith Kipper, director of the Council's Middle East Forum, says she noticed a "change in tone" during President Bush's 
> April 11 summit with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, with President Bush pressuring Sharon more than usual on the question 
> of Israeli settlements. Interview with cfr.org’s Bernard
> Gwertzman: http://www.cfr.org/publication.php?id=8000
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> Henry D. Sokolski, executive director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center, a non-profit group in 
> Washington, says Iran has wanted to develop nuclear weapons since the time of the shah in the 1970s. He says that to 
> control Iran's behavior, the international community should strengthen
> its interpretation of the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and insist that the treaty's ban on 
> nuclear-weapons proliferation means that uranium-enrichment technology can be restricted. The problem, he says, is that 
> this technology can easily be adapted for military purposes. Interview
> with cfr.org’s Bernard Gwertzman: http://www.cfr.org/publication.php?id=8004
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> > Q&A on Iran’s nuclear program
> http://www.cfr.org/background/background_iran_nuc.php
> > Backgrounder on nuclear negotiations with Iran
> http://www.cfr.org/background/iran_nucneg2.php
> > Q&A on Middle East peace plans
> http://www.cfr.org/background/mideast_plans.php
> > Q&A on key Israeli and Palestinian political leaders
> http://www.cfr.org/background/mideast_leaders.php
> > Q&A on the “road map”
> http://www.cfr.org/background/mideast_roadmap.php
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> AFTER A POST-ELECTION LULL, IRAQI INSURGENCY ATTACKS PICK UP
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> > Q&A on insurgents' tactics
> http://www.cfr.org/background/background_iraq_insurgents.php
> > David Phillips’ op-ed in the Financial Times on Iraq’s constitution
> http://www.cfr.org/pub7999/david_l_phillips/iraqs_real_battle_will_be_over_laws_of_the_land.php
> > Max Boot’s op-ed in the Los Angeles Times on Ahmad Chalabi
> http://www.cfr.org/publication.php?id=7991
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> BACKGROUND ON THE NEWS
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> SUDAN: The only way to stop the genocide in Darfur is to dispatch a large and capable military expedition, but no 
> country or organization has shown the will, says Council Fellow Max Boot in the Los Angeles Times. 
> http://www.cfr.org/pub8003/max_boot/what_do_we_do_about_darfur.php
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> U.S. POLITICS: Former New Jersey governor Christine Todd Whitman discusses her book It's My Party Too: The Battle for 
> the Heart of the GOP and the Future of America, and says that "social fundamentalists" are crowding moderates out of 
> the Republican Party. Transcript:
> http://www.cfr.org/pub8002/christine_todd_whitman/its_my_party_too_taking_back_the_republican_partyand_bringing_the_country_together_again.php
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