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Fifteen years after the collapse of the US investment bank Lehman Brothers triggered a devastating global financial crisis, the banking system is in trouble again. Central bankers and financial regulators each seem to bear some of the blame for the recent tumult, but there is significant disagreement over how much – and what, if anything, can be done to avoid a deeper crisis.
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杜鲁门时期的美国国务卿迪恩·艾奇逊喜欢引用朋友的一句话：在政府任职时很害怕，可辞职后却很担忧。对我们这些无法知悉北约在阿富汗军事行动背后复杂性的人们来说，阿富汗以及整个中亚的状况及其令人担忧。
正当阿富汗总统哈米德·卡尔扎伊的批评者们说他准备把命运与巴基斯坦和塔利班连结在一起时，五角大楼担心战争可能会跳出普什图中心地带，扩散到阿富汗北部以塔吉克人和乌兹别克人为主的区域。据说，美国正耗资1亿美元在马扎里沙里夫附近兴建一个跨过乌兹别克斯坦边境的“特种作战建筑群”。
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