Constraining American policy may, therefore, be one of the motivations behind Israel s incursion into Gaza.

From Egypt, Mostafa Hussein, who posts pictures of patients arrested in the Al Mahalla protests, tells us why handcuffing patients to beds is not a good practice.

That strategy saddled Japan with the world s highest debt GDP ratio, to little benefit.

So any sustained cooperation with the US and its regional allies Japan and South Korea would only help America to shackle China.

Cases were reported of detainees, including minors, being held without food or handcuffed for prolonged periods of time, sometimes for several weeks.

Both in Tunisia and Egypt, for example, Islamist politicians have given assurances that the economically critical tourism sector will not be hindered by restrictions related to Islamic law.

Foreign lenders resulting caution would prevent future Egyptian governments from irresponsibly saddling their populace with debt.

By emphasizing the relations between states and governments over contacts with the opposition or civil societies (when they exist in an identifiable form), traditional diplomacy has created for itself a handicap that is difficult to overcome.

A quarter century later, President George H.W. Bush, considering how best to roll back Iraq s invasion of Kuwait, drew an analogy with Vietnam, where the absence of an exit strategy had caused US forces to get bogged down.

In other cases, individuals who were captured and later released with no charges have reported abusive acts by CF, including being handcuffed, hooded, earmuffed and roughly handled while being transported to detention facilities.