Failed States, Cholera, and ‘Preventive Action’ -- A Commentary

A child leaves a burial plot for cholera victims in Zimbabwe. (The New York Times)

From The New York Times:

Celia Dugger’s stunning descriptions of the unfolding cholera epidemic in Zimbabwe brought to mind issues raised at the “Center for Preventive Action Symposium” at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York Tuesday. There, specialists in the world’s most turbulent regions held forth with a menu of ways the Obama administration might blunt, if not avert, crises with preventive action.

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