More Questions than Answers on Iraq
Christopher A. Preble
The U.S. bombing campaign being waged against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) raises more questions than it answers. Ben Friedman noted the muddle of U.S. policy here. Among the most vexing questions for me:
- What is the actual end game? Can it be achieved by the means being employed?
The narrow, short-term mission that President Obama laid before the American people on Thursday evening is almost entirely humanitarian: this is about saving the lives of desperate people, including women and children stranded without food and water. But unlike relief operations after hurricanes or earthquak...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 8, 2014 Category: American Health Authors: Christopher A. Preble Source Type: blogs
Iraq: No Military Redo a Decade Later
Doug Bandow
Little more than a decade ago the U.S. invaded Iraq. The promised cakewalk turned out far different than expected. Today the government—and entire state—created by Washington are in crisis. Yet the same voices again are being raised calling for military intervention. With the promise that this time everything will turn out well.
Social engineers never seem to learn. It is hard enough to redesign and remake individuals, families, and communities in America. It is far harder to do so overseas.
As I point out in my latest Freeman column: “Nation-building requires su...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 29, 2014 Category: American Health Authors: Doug Bandow Source Type: blogs
America Should Stay Out of Iraq and Stop Trying to Fix the World
Doug Bandow
KILIS, TURKEY—Syria’s civil war has washed over Turkey’s border, flooding the latter with hundreds of thousands of refugees. Washington’s efforts to solve the crisis so far have yielded few positive results. George W. Bush’s grandest foreign policy “success,” the ouster of Saddam Hussein, is turning into an even more dramatic debacle.
The region is aflame and U.S. policy bears much of the blame. Washington’s relentless attempt to reorder and reshape complex peoples, distant places, and volatile disputes has backfired spectacularly.
The blame is not limited to Barack Obama. However ineffec...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 18, 2014 Category: American Health Authors: Doug Bandow Source Type: blogs
Remembrances of Prof. M.A. Adelman
Steve H. Hanke
As Peter noted, M.A. “Morry” Adelman—a great economist, mentor, and friend—passed away last month at the age of 96. The first paragraph of The New York Times obituary (June 8, 2014) had this to say of Professor Adelman’s passing.
Morris A. Adelman, an energy economist who marshaled free-market principles and hard data in arguing that the world’s oil supply was not running out, died May 8 at his home in Newton, Mass. He was 96. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he taught and researched for 65 years, announced the death on May 15.
I first had the pleas...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 13, 2014 Category: American Health Authors: Steve H. Hanke Source Type: blogs
Obama's New Budget: Burden of Government Spending Rises More than Twice as Fast as Inflation
Daniel J. Mitchell
The President’s new budget has been unveiled.
There are lots of provisions that deserve detailed attention, but I always look first at the overall trends. Most specifically, I want to see what’s happening with the burden of government spending.
And you probably won’t be surprised to see that Obama isn’t imposing any fiscal restraint. He wants spending to increase more than twice as fast as needed to keep pace with inflation.
What makes these numbers so disappointing is that we learned last month that even a modest bit of spending discipline is all that’s needed to balance ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 4, 2014 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Daniel J. Mitchell Source Type: blogs
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Source: Carin' For Karen - December 31, 2013 Category: Cancer Authors: gjpsycfk Tags: Life in general Source Type: blogs
Freedom of Thought Under Siege Around the Globe: When You are Not Free to Not Believe
Doug Bandow
Much of the world has just celebrated the most sacred Christian holiday, yet persecution of Christians has never been fiercer, especially in the Middle East. Other faiths also suffer varying degrees of persecution.
Nonbelievers also often are mistreated. The lack of religious belief is less likely to be punished by communist and former communist regimes. But such systems penalize almost all independent thought.
Moreover, atheists and other freethinkers are at special risk in theocratic and especially aggressively Muslim states. The International Humanist and Ethical Union re...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 31, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Doug Bandow Source Type: blogs
Liberalish Rather than Liberal: A Kuwaiti Grades the Gulf Kingdom
Doug Bandow
Kuwait City, Kuwait—“I read your blog post,” Dr. Anood Al-Sharikh told me when we met. “Kuwait isn’t really liberal, but more liberalish, don’t you think?”
She’s right, though in the Middle East even liberalish is a major advance over ugly authoritarian systems like the Saudi theocracy. Kuwait hosts many traditionalists and Islamists who live conservatively, but there is space for most everyone. Many women, like Al-Sharikh hold professional jobs, travel the world, and dress fashionably.
Moreover, politics is freer than elsewhere in the Gulf. Kuwait is ruled by an emir who appoints government mi...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 27, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Doug Bandow Source Type: blogs
America’s Liberal Persian Gulf Friend: An Uneasy Kuwait Confronts Domestic Critics and Regional Threats
Doug Bandow
Kuwait City, Kuwait—Kuwait is a shrimp among whales in the Middle East. It lies among three much larger states, Iran, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia, all of which have the potential, noted one American diplomat, of swallowing the small Gulf kingdom. Indeed, Baghdad attempted to do precisely that in 1990.
Although more than two decades have passed, Kuwaitis remain grateful to the U.S. They know they would be the 19th province of Iraq absent American military support. The Sheraton, where I typically stay, includes photos of the damage wreaked by Iraqi invaders.
Today Iran looms as the lar...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 25, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Doug Bandow Source Type: blogs
Baxter completes patient enrollment in phase III trial of BAX 855, extended half-life rFVIII to treat haemophilia A
Baxter International Inc. has completed enrollment in its phase III clinical trial of BAX 855, an investigational extended half-life, recombinant factor VIII (rFVIII) treatment for haemophilia A. The ongoing trial is aimed at assessing the efficacy of the compound in reducing annualized bleed rates (ABR) in both prophylaxis and on-demand treatment schedules, and will also evaluate its safety and pharmacokinetic profile.BAX 855 was designed based on the full-length ADVATE [Antihemophilic Factor (Recombinant) Plasma/Albumin-Free Method] molecule, a product with 10 years of real-world experience. The BAX 855 molecule was modi...
Source: Medical Hemostat - November 15, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: hemostatguy at gmail.com (hemostat guy) Source Type: blogs
Immigration Does Not Decrease Economic Freedom
Alex Nowrasteh
A common criticism of immigration reform (here, here, and here) is that it will decrease economic freedom in the United States, by increasing the voting pool for the Democratic Party. Leaving aside the issue of which party supports economic liberty, if any, it’s important to see what the actual impacts of immigration are on economic freedom in the United States and the world. The political effects of immigrants after they arrive are less certain than the economic benefits. Do immigrants decrease economic freedom in their new countries? The bottom line: fears of immigrants decreasin...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 8, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
Out of Industry Friday: Turkey and Social Media
Each Friday, we take time to look outside the digital industry and look at how social media is affecting something else in our world. We all saw the Arab Spring rise over the past few years where the youth of countries rose and overthrew dictatorships with the tools of social media. Now, another country is following suit. Turkey's people are voicing their oppositions to the commercialization of a park, and in turn the leadership of their Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and gaining fuel thanks to the power of social media.
The Huffington Post shines a spotlight on how social media is provi...
Source: ePharma Summit - June 14, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Tags: Out of Pharma Social Turkey social media ePharma Summit Source Type: blogs
Policy Life Stirs in Doha: Islamists and Democracy
Doug Bandow
Big conferences can be enervating, especially when large panels are populated with establishment political figures spouting the conventional wisdom. However, the Doha Forum, which I have been attending in Doha (surprise!), Qatar, sported a burst of spontaneity at a workshop on the role of Islamists in the Middle East.
While competing discussions of economics and technology were sparsely attended, the Islamist workshop overflowed. Islamists from Bahrain, Egypt, and Tunisia made the case that Muslim fundamentalists in those countries were dedicated to democracy and intended to be inclusive of all within their so...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 22, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Doug Bandow Source Type: blogs
IVF/ICSI Success story for a man with globozoospermia
As a referral IVF clinic , we treat many patients who have failed IVF and ICSI cycles in other clinics. Here's a success story from such a couple.
Globozoospermia is a very rare condition , and most IVF clinics in the world will not be able to even properly diagnose this condition, leave alone manage such complex cases. While I am very proud of the fact that we helped our patient to achieve a pregnancy, I am even more proud of the fact that he has become an expert patient, who is very well-informed about his problem ! He now knows more about globozoospermia than most IVF specialists !
Here's his first person account.
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Source: The Patient's Doctor - May 13, 2013 Category: Obstetricians and Gynecologists Source Type: blogs
