SKFTA

SKAFTA and TAA will pass now

Reuters, 9/8/11, “U.S. group says confident of trade deals” http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/08/us-usa-trade-deals-idUSTRE7874WE20110908

"We're confident we'll ...and the Senate.

Political party aid unpopular  
 Cuts prove that the plan would be very unpopular among the GOP

Ahram Online, Reuters, 9/7/11, “Obama's diplomacy reforms threatened by cuts” http://english.ahram.org.eg/~/NewsContent/2/9/20567/World/International/Obamas-diplomacy-reforms-threatened-by-cuts.aspx

President Barack Obama's ...leverage we have."

Political capital and bipart key

Thomas "Mack" McLarty III and Nelson W. Cunningham, 1/24/11, chief of staff to Clinton in 1993-94 and helped bring Bill Daley into the White House to lead the 1993 Nafta ratification effort, AND Mr. Cunningham was an aide to President Clinton and to then-Sen. Joseph Biden, “Obama's Free Trade Opportunity,”

Much has been written ... but it is essential.

Quick KORUS ratification is key to the economy and Asian stability

Rhodes, Citigroup senior advisor, 4-11-2011

[William, "There's no time to lose on Korea," The Hill, thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/foreign-policy/155285-theres-no-time-to-lose-on-korea, accessed 4-13-11, mss]

In his State of ...of Congress’ agenda. 

Asian war ends in extinction  

Dibb, Australian National University Strategic and Defense Studies Centre head, 2001

[Paul, previously Deputy Secretary for Strategic Policy and Intelligence in the Australian Department of Defense and director of the Joint Intelligence Organisation, previously ] head of the National Assessments Staff for the National Intelligence Committee, “Strategic Trends: Asia at a Crossroads,” Naval War College Review, Winter, http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Strategic+Trends.-a075762211, accessed 1-2-11, mss]

The areas of maximum ...with major crises