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...truly naive to believe that the current U.S. Administration will invest serious efforts in promoting good governance in the region." Among Arabs, the vision of a postwar Middle East is filled with dread. Many are convinced that a war would breed regional instability and spark a fresh burst of anti-American rage. Terrorist ranks would find fresh recruits to spread violence across the region. Fundamentalist forces could provoke crackdowns that stifle any political opening. Or if regimes allowed a tenuous democracy, well-organized fundamentalists could come to power. "The consequences of war," Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Saud...
...Hussayen's case also may provide fresh evidence that at least some of these anti-American websites are being supported by funds coming from Saudi Arabia. Al-Hussayen is accused of covertly receiving $300,000 from abroad and disbursing much of it to IANA. Law-enforcement sources tell TIME that about $100,000 of those funds came from radical Islamic interests in Saudi Arabia. A Saudi-embassy spokesman in Washington said no government money has gone to IANA. --By Elaine Shannon and Michael Weisskopf
That being said, multilateral organizations can definitely be forces for good in the world—NATO being the most prominent example—and America would obviously be better served if more U.N. leadership roles were held by liberal democracies, instead of dictatorships and anti-American tyrannies. Reforming the U.N. is thus a worthwhile goal. However, it may prove unnecessary, for the U.N. is in danger of consigning itself to the dustbin of insignificance. Should the Security Council decide not to enforce its own resolutions for disarming the regime in Baghdad, it will be forfeiting all its remaining credibility...
Apply this thinking to Iraq. There is one big, evil dictator running things his way. But if we take over, the reasoning goes, we might make a big mess—we could provoke worldwide anti-American sentiment, slaughter Iraqi civilians and impose some unspecified form of American military rule on the country. But it’ll be our mess, which for us, somehow, appears safer. And, to an American troop on the ground in Iraq, once the US is in control, Bush (and the rest of us) can stop caring...
...North Korea, to a greater extent than Iraq, defines itself almost entirely by its anti-Americanism. Hatred and suspicion of the U.S., and its perceived stooges Japan and South Korea, are not only policy, they are a national rallying point. North Korea's state philosophy of juche, usually translated as "self-reliance," relies on anti-American rhetoric for most of its brittle, thin substance. The U.S., according to North Korean history, started the Korean War, continues to pursue aggressive policies on the peninsula and aspires to the subjugation of all Koreans. Pyongyang unites its starving and impoverished people by flagrantly...