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  • Abnormal Sex Ratios Bring Security Nightmares--That's Why

    Societies with strong son preference know that families will cull girls from the population if they can. This results in highly male-dominated cultures, with many more men than women. What is new is that we now know there are specific, negative security consequences for such states. The book, Bare Branches: The Security Implications of Asia's ...
    Posted to Human Nature by goodreasons on June 16, 2009

  • 21st Century Diplomacy

    Understandably we need to foster a strong relationship with India, but is it wise to do so at the cost of our relationship with Pakiston, tenuous as it may be? Ask that same question about Russia and or China as well. I hate to sit on the fence, but Russia and China are on the UN Security Committee, Pakistan is instrumental in our efforts in ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by Willard4101 on December 10, 2008

  • Support India Yes

    Yes, INDIA is our friend. I work in the software industry, and many colleagues are of course INDIANS. It is hard to say what the official government policy is for diplomatic relations between our two countries. Foreign policy is in disarray these days. While the U.S. has made significant investments in INDIA, and many INDIANS are working in the ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by richard_lee_morris on December 2, 2008

  • Hitchen's Anglo-centric romanticization of India is foolish.

    India is a growing economy and best wishes. But, what a a mess of a country. You call that a democracy? More like deMOCKracy. A vast corrupt political empire of rotten bureaucrats, hothead ethnic groups, caste organizations, and the like. But, as long as the Indian elite speak good English and put on Anglophile airs, Hitchens is very ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by Andrea Freiboden on December 1, 2008

  • where recession is headed

    Our current economic malaise is unprecdented. It involves the entire global economy including Europe, China, India, and Brazil. Add to that the pain of the Third World countries that are struggling to feed their populations. The Great Depression took a war to begin it's end.
    Posted to The Undercover Economist by david wayne osedach on November 29, 2008

  • Arrested development?

    The IMF has to act now to bolster the economies of developing countries such as Pakistan. Th United States can barely contain it's own problems.
    Posted to Today's Papers by david wayne osedach on October 24, 2008