And with our minds we can rationalize anything.

They believe that foreign policy should be handled by their national governments.

This horrible conflict is being addressed through threats of military force, sanctions, and generally the language of war and peacekeeping.

It is a mistake to believe that ecological concerns can be addressed only through negative growth.

Over the last seventeen years this addiction was established through daily negotiations with life s routine.

Places like the United Kingdom actively court wealthy foreign nationals through extraordinary preferential treatment of their investment income.

This can drive our powerful impulse to deal with distant evils through sanctions, bombings, and war.

Developing countries have also increasingly borrowed in their own currencies during the last few years, thus reducing their foreign exchange exposure. For those developing countries that remain heavily indebted abroad, an increase in risk premia would almost certainly bring economic turmoil, if not crisis.

History tends to be unkind to the unlucky, but historians also judge leaders in terms of the causes of their luck.

It s as if we reacted to Fukushima by better handling gas emissions in oil shale projects.

The lowest place (see list) was given to dealing with climate change through cuts in CO2 emissions.

A forum that would also build trust on both sides by demonstrating progress on the immediate issues we face.

If political Europe had more power, the Greek crisis would have been dealt with through a brutal conversation at the top.

More than anything else, Hamas s success in the coming months will be measured by its response to these issues.

Plus, during the last decade, we've been in the mode where dealing with groups was conceptually and politically dangerous.

Indeed, only by effectively addressing the Israeli Arab dispute can he possibly salvage America s standing in the region.

At the same time, the US and the EU, acting together, must get serious in Bosnia and Kosovo.

But any assessment of European economic governance must acknowledge the slow, contradictory nature of intergovernmental decision making, in which a misconceived notion of national interest, together with upsurges in popular anti EU sentiment and electoral pressure, has led to a stop and go process, punctuated by financial market swoons.

By using caste as a criterion in public policy, India s government is effectively treating the rich and the poor equally, thereby conveying benefits to the former.

And when it became possible to manipulate DNA in vitro, the metaphor of a genetic program appeared even more precise scientists could construct experiments that corresponded to the reprogramming of cells merely by working on symbols in silicon.

It is a jungle out there, as Americans say not every problem and conflict can be handled through the sort of peaceful, drawn out negotiations that the EU prefers.

Markets encourage the required debt discipline in a timelier manner by charging higher interest rates on government debt.

However, high handedness and tough talk alone are an inadequate response, for this approach further humiliates those who already feel humiliated, and alienates those who might otherwise proffer a more moderate voice.

Radically alter Mexico s drug policy by legalizing drugs and assuming the consequences in the United Nations and in relations with the US.

Leaders with contextual intelligence are good at providing meaning or a road map by defining the problem that a group confronts.

But there are lessons to be learned and advantages to be gained from China if Latin American governments and businesses are willing to think creatively.

All successful efforts in the Middle East conflict have not occurred in front of cameras and through publicly declared direct talks.

While there, they conducted an orientation course for the field office staff in emergency response to hazardous materials.

Even the most exposed countries handled the last round of financial shocks, in May and June 2006, relatively comfortably.

For rich countries, income redistribution is much better handled through taxes and benefits system, rather than by government edicts to strengthen unions.

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria has shown how much can be achieved through adopting a results oriented approach to financial support.

Only smarter multinational and transatlantic cooperation will give us forces that are capable of dealing with today s security challenges.

The resulting rise in social tensions is being addressed through expanded provision of rural services, investment in urban infrastructure and service provision, and regularization of migrants status.

The development challenges in Africa are just one example of how tough societal problems can be addressed by the design and spread of improved technologies.

Remarkably, responsible macroeconomic policy has followed a wave of populist socialist electoral victories in recent years.

But, for economists who actively engage the public, it is hard to influence hearts and minds by qualifying one s analysis and hedging one s prescriptions.

The ECB and the international community particularly the International Monetary Fund have tried to deal with the crisis by replacing the dearth of private capital with public credit.

Whatever mistakes Europe may have made vis à vis the region s authoritarian regimes in the past, it can now correct them by providing decisive help.

To that end, Israel has been honoured to put some of our capabilities and know how about dealing with disasters, gained through bitter experience, at the disposal of those nations struck by the tsunami.

The tragedy could have been avoided if Greece had shown unyielding, timely debt discipline. The country would then have been unable to price itself out of the market through an artificial debt financed boom.

What about possible losses suffered by the Substitution Account? This can be dealt with by setting aside part of the IMF s large gold stock.

Despite these errors, in the past few years, the IAEA has demonstrated its worth as an effective nuclear sleuth.

But this summit would do the entire world a great service by acknowledging what has gone so wrong with the MDGs, and choosing a radically different approach.

As in Europe and the US, the worst will be avoided in 2012 only by kicking the can down the road with more monetary, fiscal, and credit stimulus.

Mega disaster risks can be handled with private financial markets, as long as these markets manage to get the full attention and interest of portfolio investors.