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...Mahbubani, who served two terms as Singapore's ambassador to the United Nations, has published a cold-eyed look at how the rest of the world views the U.S. in the wake of Sept. 11 and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Beyond the Age of Innocence is written by a friend of America, aimed at Americans. If no one but the reflexive America bashers among the Davos crowd in Europe and Asia read it, the book will have been a failure...
...That threat may have emanated from a Nauru-registered Islamist website run by the previously unknown Brigade Istimata Internasional, which features what it claims is a floor plan of a U.S. embassy and lays out ways to attack the ambassador's office with rocket-propelled grenades or a mixture of TNT and the rodenticide Rodex. Anti-American sentiment has been running high in Indonesia, with the recently retracted Newsweek report on abuses of the Koran at the U.S.'s Guant?namo Bay detention camp prompting protests in several cities. And Indonesian newspapers reported last week that a group of 23 Indonesians...
CHRISTOPHER DODD, Democratic Senator from Connecticut, after Senate Democrats succeeded in delaying a vote on the nomination of John Bolton for U.N. ambassador...
...Bolton's Image Problem Re your story on the controversy surrounding John Bolton, Bush's choice as American ambassador to the U.N. [May 2]: Does the U.S. really want a contender for worst boss to represent it to the rest of the world? A former colleague called him a "kiss-up, kickdown sort of guy." Too many of us know the type. All of us should feel the injustice every time that sort of person is rewarded. The U.S. has an image problem in much of the world. We're seen as out of control, arrogant and a bully...
...least 500 people after an uprising in Andijan two weeks ago, Karimov is under fire from a source that's more difficult to suppress: the international community. The British have called for an investigation into the shootings, as have the U.N. and the European Union. Craig Murray, the ambassador Britain recalled from Tashkent last year, says that Karimov is "indignant now that anyone should have the temerity to criticize him." The Uzbek government insists that a total of 169 people died in the confrontation - but not one civilian was killed by government forces, according to Prosecutor General Rashid Kadyrov. Andijan...