Just as the right answer to inequitable application of national security-minded export controls is not to dumb down ours to thelowestcommondenominator applied by others, our approach on capital markets transparency ought to be to bring others' exchanges up to our new, higher standard.
Some now seek to deal directly with the Palestinians' resulting "unity" government, despite the fact that the lowest-common-denominator of this unification seems to be an undisguised commitment to destroy a country that is not only, as JFK put it, of one of our "friends, " but a key ally in a dangerous part of the world: Israel.