A prudent lender should have considered these facts before making the loans. So the banks and international institutions that lent money to Mubarak should bear the responsibility of their choice to bankroll his repressive regime.

Indeed, an attack would most likely increase America s reliance on unsavory Islamist rulers in countries ranging from Saudi Arabia and Qatar to Turkey and the United Arab Emirates. Some Arab monarchs have pledged to bankroll the US attack an investment that they would easily recover, given that the war talk has already increased oil prices.

This would be not only fair, but it also would teach an important lesson to those who bankroll dictators  a lesson that is likely to have an immediate positive impact worldwide. Lenders to a repressive regime will no longer expect these debts to be repaid by its successors, immediately making lenders worldwide careful about lending to them.

A group of non governmental organizations (NGOs) in Russia that has run a harm reduction effort with Global Fund money received assurances from the government that it would continue to bankroll the work once that money ran out. But last fall the government reneged, and the Global Fund issued the group an emergency grant for two years.

This would be not only fair, but it also would teach an important lesson to those who bankroll dictators a lesson that is likely to have an immediate positive impact worldwide. Lenders to a repressive regime will no longer expect these debts to be repaid by its successors, immediately making lenders worldwide careful about lending to them.

The case against a Yanukovych counter revolution is that it would be just that a ruthless effort to undo Ukraine s democratic and legal reforms. Moreover, he would not be left to himself to govern, but would be a marionette of the oligarchs who bankroll his party, and perhaps of Russia, which yearns albeit more discretely than a year ago for his triumph.

Bolivia s Indians have also used their eco clout to convince the energy companies to bankroll their fight for a 750,000 acre homeland bordering Kempff. It now pays for nature to stay, as the locals earn their neo traditional living by ranching oxygen traded on the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX), and through shipping certified timber and organic palm hearts to Chile and Europe.

The case against a Yanukovich counter revolution is that it would be just that a ruthless effort to undo Ukraine s democratic and legal reforms. Moreover, he would not be left to himself to govern, but would be a marionette of the oligarchs who bankroll his party, and perhaps of Russia, which yearns albeit more discretely than a year ago for his triumph.