If you destroyed half the pharmaceutical production in the United States, we'd think it's a pretty serious problem. In fact, we'd probably go to war.
Part of the population of Laos lives in urban centers, Vientiane being the largest.
When secular figures are turned into divinities, they way they are in Peian Yang or Stanford University - that I don't like.
In 1961, the United States began chemical warfare in Vietnam, South Vietnam, chemical warfare to destroy crops and livestock. That went on for seven years. The level of poison - they used the most extreme carcinogen known: dioxin. And this went on for years.
In the case of the environment, there's no one to bail it out.
Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
Obama has succeeded in descending even below George W. Bush in approval in the Arab world. It's minuscule, few percent.
For many of the world's conflicts, it is difficult even to conjure up a feasible settlement.
I don't pay a lot of attention to polls.
