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...that even a superpower can't claim by itself, and such approval is essential in the Middle East. Nations such as Saudi Arabia might not agree to serve as staging bases without U.N. backing, and Bush can't place all the troops he'll need for the war on aircraft carriers. Other friendly Arab nations like Jordan, Egypt and Qatar need U.N. cover to deflect accusations that they are party to an attack on a brother Arab country. With U.N. sanction, it will be easier to convince ordinary Arabs that the war is legitimate and the fault is Saddam...
...heart of the Bush Doctrine is the idea that, as the new blueprint states, "We cannot let our enemies strike first." Bush makes it clear that the billions of dollars we have spent on armies, navies and aircraft can't protect us anymore. Terrorists and rogue states have learned to attack our weak spots with truck bombs, boat bombs and airliners. Next, he predicts, they will use weapons of mass destruction on us and perhaps on our friends and allies. For all those reasons, a new kind of deterrence is needed. We can no longer rely entirely on "our reactive...
Next Jan. 24, chief pilot Lanny McAndrew will be entrusted with a $57 million airplane, the lives of more than 100 passengers and the perfect safety record of his employer, JetBlue Airways. He will slide into the left seat of the A320 aircraft's cockpit, fly one of JetBlue's routes and return home to New York City. The following day McAndrew, 59, will no longer be qualified to be an airline pilot. "The government says overnight I'll become old and sick, so I better check into a hospital, right?" he asks mockingly...
...Weapons: Iraq continues to manufacture chemical and biological weapons, and has military plans for their use - in some cases within 45 minutes of the order being given. It also has mobile labs for producing biological warfare agents and multiple methods of delivering them, including mortars, artillery, bombs, drone sprayer aircraft and missiles...
...Solo. Indonesia, says Rohan Gunaratna, an expert on terrorism and author of a recent book on al-Qaeda, "is the only place in the world where radicals tied to al-Qaeda aren't being hunted down." Adds a Western intelligence source in Jakarta: "The country's like an aircraft carrier from which terrorists can safely launch attacks throughout the region...