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...that it has only the faintest tint or scent of India. Except for proper names, the book's vernacular and cultural references are almost entirely American, and impressively authentic at that. The hard-boiled dialogue is straight out of classic Hollywood, a tongue-in-cheek tribute to the Anglo-American spy spoof. If Bond and Matt Helm outrageously flout social norms, MM seems to follow an inverted morality, almost defying the reader to accept him. Yet there's something charmingly retro about Bahal's "outlaw" approach. His closest literary parallel is with the Beats: the grim, druggy surrealism of William...
...invert the old proverb, what comes down must go up. More than a week since the liberation of Baghdad, the military preeminence of the Anglo-American coalition in Iraq seems assured. Saddam Hussein’s regime has fallen and will never again oppress the Iraqi people. The real challenge for America, however, is not the toppling of a tinpot director—a military triumph for the mightiest army the world has ever seen was never in doubt—but the forging of a stable country in the wake of Saddam’s departure...
...wine." Diplomacy, the French like to say, is sovereign; commerce ranks somewhere below. And angry wine merchants alone don't explain why official France is shucking off some of its haughty principles and doing what it can to get back in the fold; the hard reality of the swift Anglo-American victory in Iraq gives it little alternative. Chirac's phone call on Tuesday to Bush - their first conversation since Feb. 7, characterized as "positive" by the Elysée and as "business-like" by the White House - was a station of the cross on that pre-Easter walk...
...psychological "shock and awe" campaign early on that didn't produce a coup or surrender or mass defections, by the constant quibbling over whether the images of Saddam were real or not, and by the very use of the term coalition to describe a force that was plainly Anglo-American. I suspect that we will long be haunted by the prediction of Egypt's Hosni Mubarak last week: that this war may produce "a hundred [Osama] bin Ladens...
...them," a senior State Department official said--and claimed that the inspectors are ignoring tips from U.S. intelligence and capitulating to Iraqi intimidation. Inspectors vehemently deny the charges. But Powell's Russian and French counterparts hailed the reports of progress and repeated their threats to block passage of the Anglo-American resolution. French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin rejected the idea that the British amendment amounted to a compromise, saying, "We would not accept a resolution that will lead...