Stop Coddling Belarus

Of course, we all have our little indulgences.

Instead, the bogeyman of financial globalization is used as an excuse for continuing to coddle inefficient and monopolistic domestic financial systems.

Instead of formulating and implementing comprehensive and transparent reforms, the government would have no choice but to continue to indulge and, above all, avoid threatening vested interests.

Vlad received the nickname Draculea derived from Dragon from his father.

The urban intelligentsia and professionals have been pampered with material perks and political recognition, while new private entrepreneurs have been allowed to join the Party.

For starters, the government must stop coddling the militias, and focus on building the national army something that the NTC neglected.

As a result, many central bankers have become household names some even have tabloid nicknames, like super Mario Draghi.

Indeed, China s pandering to dictators in its quest for resources contradicts its long term interest in being acknowledged as a benign and legitimate power and commanding the international respect that it craves.

But bullying Georgia and Moldova, demonstrating support for Hamas, or indulging North Korea do not seem to be guided by any strategic sense of Russia s far reaching interests.

American intellectuals failure to challenge these ideas and to help the US population shed complacent attitudes based on ignorance perpetuates a culture of coddling the public.

But, as Representative Paul Kanjorski, the main force behind the provision, recently put it, The key lesson of the last decade is that financial regulators must use their powers, rather than coddle industry interests.

If North Korea fails to restrain itself, and China s approach remains tantamount to coddling a dangerous, nuclear armed state, strategic rivalry across East Asia might revive around a Washington Tokyo Seoul axis vis à vis a China North Korea coalition.

But Barack Obama s administration apparently has concluded that Arab monarchs are likely to survive, whereas Arab presidents are more likely to fall, and that it is acceptable for the United States to continue to coddle tyrannical kings.