But he must think strategically about the future.

That idea is foolish economically and strategically.

Cooperation with NATO also looks strategically wise.

China s economic ties to Burma s rulers are strategically important for both sides.

Historically, small, strategically oriented states have wielded global power.

Demographically and strategically, Poland is by far the most important of the EU s new members.

The US also has a strategic interest in helping Germany and Europe contend with this crisis.

Foreign investment is limited in sectors that the EU considers to be strategically and politically important.

The mainland was simply too large and too important economically and strategically to alienate.

But the move proved to be a strategic defeat, given that it significantly diminished the United States political influence in Iraq.

However, while ELN may be strategically beaten, the FARC is not.

Strategically, however, China and the US will have to rely on one another for a long time.

Both India and China are each seeking greater influence over the strategically important country of Myanmar.

Central Asia s hydrocarbon reserves, and its pivotal location, make it strategically important for many countries.

It s no use complaining about Russia s strategic bullying when we are not being strategic ourselves. The West can t change Russia s behavior with persuasion, so it must try to use its leverage make the Nabucco pipeline bypassing Russia a reality, build LNG terminals, include energy in Europe s Common Foreign and Security Policy, diversify supply, and screen companies seeking capital in London s stock exchange more carefully.

Nor do Iran and Turkey share a common vision with regard to the strategically sensitive Gulf region.

It s no use complaining about Russia s strategic bullying when we are not being strategic ourselves.

Via the lake and once past the 24,000 island archipelago beyond it, Stockholm has access to the Baltic Sea, placing the city in quite a strategic hotspot.

Most of these less strategically important businesses are now in dire economic straits.

Despite its frequent economic booms, Asia is also a strategic and security minefield.

The key lesson of the last half century is that policymakers must be strategic, rather than comprehensive.

It is a beautiful, mountainous, strategically important, and perennially contested region in which many people have never truly felt Indian.

There could be no greater opportunity for doing so than this strategically crucial window in the history of Europe and the southern Mediterranean.

But the choice of the ten ministries was strategically clever, given the Muslim Brotherhood s coming battles with SCAF.

Indeed, the entire Mediterranean region, including the strategically located North African coast, plays a crucial role in Europe s security calculations.

The installation was claimed to be necessary for remote surveillance of the strategically located Andaman and Nicobar islands as well activities on the coastal seas.

The fog of war doesn t simply happen combatants contribute to it strategically, with their attempts to mystify and confuse adversaries.

The Amazonian city of Iquitos is strategically located on the banks of three rivers the Nanay, the Itaya, and the mighty Amazon.

Europe has not only historical moral obligations to Israel, but also security interests that link it to the strategically vital Eastern Mediterranean.

Although this stance is technically wrong, it is strategically rational, given the West s wariness regarding Iran s true intentions.

For example, Egypt, with its control of the Suez Canal and its cold peace with Israel, is too important strategically to be simply abandoned.

Even Japan s strategically myopic current government seems to understand that Russia needs to play some role in achieving a new balance of power in Asia.

Whether or not a new state is born in one of the most strategically sensitive areas of the world is of utmost concern to Sudan s neighbors and others.

These bilateral relationships constitute much of the strategic undercurrent of East Asian security at a time when the region s long term geostrategic stability has come into question.

EU leaders focus narrowly on limiting short term financial and political costs, rather than thinking strategically about broader longer term consequences.

He was motivated partly by ethical concerns, feeling that such a weapon could only be used strategically against civilian targets, resulting in millions of deaths.

Much of the future increases in coal fired electricity generation will come from strategically important developing countries like China and India. In 2006 alone, China added about 93,000 megawatts of coal fired electricity generating capacity, and this trend is expected to continue as the country tries to meet its huge energy needs.

While this group s primary goal is to undermine Israel Egypt relations, they do not shy away from operating directly against the Egyptian state. Given their strategic location, Sinai jihadis could easily be used by larger terrorist networks to target strategically vital locations, such as the Suez Canal.

Much of the future increases in coal fired electricity generation will come from strategically important developing countries like China and India.

Pashtuns living in the strategically important south and east, together with Shi'a Muslim Hezaras, constitute some two thirds of Afghanistan's population.

Distinguishing between information about real national security concerns and images strategically designed to shock and titillate us will not be easy.

Given their strategic location, Sinai jihadis could easily be used by larger terrorist networks to target strategically vital locations, such as the Suez Canal.

The inhabitants of Yonaguni strongly oppose the law, not because they are exclusionary, but because they believe that they are protecting a sensitive border.

Meanwhile, the Chinese solution gave rise to nationalist fears that sovereign wealth funds might be abused to seize strategically vital businesses or whole sectors of an economy.

But its passage confirms that the US relationship with India promises to be one of America s closest and strategically most important in the twenty first century.