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The U.S. should seek to isolate and eventually disarmHezbollah, shore up the Lebanese government, discourage Iran andSyria from meddling, and help rebuild Lebanon.
Youth gangs have been a familiar part of American urban life since the American Revolution. Today, because of their growing size and globalization, they also pose a serious threat to public security. Groups that began in Los Angeles during the 1960s and 1980s now have fraternal links to an estimated 130,000 to 300,000 members in Mexico and Central America and have spread to cities and small towns across the United States.
Because the Balkans' future depends on integration into aEuro-Atlantic framework within the next decade, the BushAdministration should encourage the leveraging of EU economicincentives to bring about a resolution of Kosovo's final statusthat opens the door to NATO accession for qualifying Balkancountries and allows for drawdown and redeployment of the 7,000American troops stationed in Kosovo.
September 11, 2001, may have been a wake-up call to reform America's outdated intelligence bureaucracies and fight a global war on terrorism, but in some corners of the government, the war of ideas has been a lesser priority. While overseas opinion polls show mostly negative views of the United States, the communications machinery at the Department of State remains in disarray, interagency coordination remains minimal, and America's foreign communications effort lacks focus.
Biographers tell us that Hugo Chávez trained for a radical career ever since childhood, though no one guessed he would be president.