We wonder why.

Today we ask, why South Africa!?

Yet we are left to ask when will the time for major political change come?

Here, one may wonder why a country such as Belgium would support the creation of new permanent seats.

Like soccer, it is worth asking how the show is put on.

But we have to ask Is it possible that our universe is just a plume off of some greater history?

Five years from now, we will wonder what took us so long to get started.

We do not question their importance or the critical role they play in the development of our nation.

We must briefly ask ourselves, as we have done in Peru, whether we have much to celebrate.

He wondered why the United Nations could not act in Western Sahara as it had in Timor Leste.

Unfortunately, one must wonder to what extent these ratings are distorted by the eurozone countries political power.

But as we started asking ourselves about how we were addressing the higher needs of our employees and our customers, I realized we had no metrics.

We in Turkey have been tackling the question of whether Islam can coexist with Western democracy for more than 150 years.

Where, one might wonder, does this leave Europe? Europeans have grown used to the idea that the transatlantic relationship is the foundation of the international order.

One of them might be, you know, when we see this funny stripy thing is that a tiger just about to jump out and kill us?

So we started asking ourselves What kind of less obvious metrics could we use to actually evaluate our employees' sense of meaning, or our customers' sense of emotional connection with us?

Every time someone goes on a shooting rampage, we ask why this particular person was not detected and stopped.

Genocide is a socially meaningful way to describe a species of annihilation it is the legal category that we must question.

So what we do in our field is we change and input, we give aggressive chemotherapy, and we say, Did that output get better? Did that pain improve, etc.?

Yet, given the sheer scale of military spending today, one can wonder if it is rational.

Given the facts on the ground created by Israel, there are justified doubts about whether a two state solution is feasible at all.

Leaving matters of propriety aside, we wonder what legal and moral rights Mr. Axworthy can invoke to contact our lawyers, without our prior knowledge and approval.

Rather, we should question whether, in a world in which 25,000 impoverished children die unnecessarily every day, another concert hall is what the world needs.

Now, when we already have all the wealth we need, we are right to wonder whether the costs of capitalism are worth incurring.

While we salute the constructive efforts of the outgoing Chairman of the Commission, we need to ask ourselves whether the Commission is serving its purpose.

Why do those countries that send suicide bombers not send their young people to do humanitarian work to contribute to the reconstruction of Iraq instead of sending them to kill children, to destabilize Iraq and its security?

It is, after all, fair to question whether donor countries will stick to these commitments and, indeed, whether conditions in partner countries will permit them to.

It is only reasonable, therefore, for us to ask ourselves whether the report is more, or less, ambitious than those common denominators identified in the debates on reform held so far.

Is psychology somehow behind the pervasive negative skew in recent months? Maybe we should ask why the skew is so negative.

But heroic rescue efforts will not be able to help the government forever, so it is worth asking what can provide long term political legitimacy.

But I will speak or rather wonder why a gay man who lives in a country like Saudi Arabia post a suggestive video online like that on YouTube !!??

To wonder, as many have, why the Chinese regime refused to negotiate with the students in 1989 or to find some accommodation with its critics today is to misunderstand the nature of religious politics.

So, with the Bush era winding down in a tailspin of plummeting popularity and high level resignations, has the neo conservative movement, too, run its course?

First of all, when and where was World War III? The Cold War, precisely because it never became hot, was never the equivalent of World War I or II.

Larry Fink, the CEO of the multinational investment management firm BlackRock, takes a similar view It really throws into question the whole globalization of these firms, with each country for itself .

There is no question about the necessity for the turnaround. However, with hindsight, one might ask whether an earlier loosening by the PBC would have been wiser.

To be sure, most of the doomsayers have barely any knowledge of basic economics. But that has not stopped their views from informing the public debate.

But it is fair to ask when a sustainable solution to Africa s dehumanizing poverty will be found, not only by the G8 and the organizers of Live 8, but also by Africa s leaders and people.

It is now time to try this on a broad scale. Five years from now, we will wonder what took us so long to get started.

Of course, when we think about the G 20, we immediately wonder who, other than the US, could organize the issuance of such a statement.

(With some experts predicting that individuals will routinely live beyond 110 115 years by mid century, one might wonder what all this will do to other social conventions such as marriage, but I will leave this thought to another day.)

Of course, when we think about the G 20, we immediately wonder who, other than the US, could organize the issuance of such a statement. That is precisely the problem, and it could get much worse.

If that is the future we want, we should stride toward it with full awareness and a sense of purpose, not meander carelessly until we fall into a hole, look up, and wonder how we got there.

Nevertheless, given corruption scandals involving prominent government figures that have come to light over the past few years, it is natural to wonder why the stock market has remained so strong.

One cannot help but wonder were there alternative ways of spending a fraction of the war s 1 2 trillion in costs that would have better strengthened security, boosted prosperity, and promoted democracy?