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...foreign relations at the University of Bonn. "Europe is concentrating on itself." But neither the Europeans nor the Americans are ready to give up on NATO. De Hoop Scheffer says "the U.S. is engaged with and committed to the alliance." And however inadvertently, the E.U. itself provided the best argument for NATO's survival in its 2003 European Security Strategy, a kind of blueprint for an E.U. defense force: "In almost every major intervention, military efficiency has been followed by civilian chaos." That's an apt description of Iraq, but also applies to places like Kosovo and Afghanistan. Right...
...graveside eulogies - designed to scare drivers into behaving. But the key to the success, argues Geneviève Jurgensen of the League Against Road Violence, is enforcement. "People won't heed the law unless there is a real probability of getting caught," she says. Now there's an argument to keep those speed cameras rolling...
...contentious plan to bring home the troops still in Iraq hadn't been prominent in Latham's campaign before the blast; now, says pollster Rod Cameron, it's a discussion he'll find impossible to avoid. "The political argument will come back to that: Have you changed your mind about the troops? What about Spain?" Labor has long argued that having troops in Iraq has made Australia more of a target and damaged regional goodwill and cooperation against terrorism. Howard has painted Labor's plan as a cop-out in a necessary war, though his deputy, National Party leader John...
...test-markets his every utterance, whereas President Bush, love him or hate him, comes across as a man who means what he says and doesn't stick his finger in the air checking to see which way the wind is blowing before he speaks. Nicky Billou Toronto Klein's argument that Kerry must campaign more aggressively against Bush's policies was dead on. Bush's litany of mistakes can be defined in common terms by every kindergartner in America, yet Kerry can't bring himself to call a spade a spade. Kerry has to tell us exactly what Bush...
...intent of the law. Senate Majority Leader Tom Delay, R.-Texas, has derided the ban as an ineffective “feel-good piece of legislation.” To be sure, whatever ambiguity existing in the current legislation is problematic. But the existence of loopholes is not an argument for throwing out the ban altogether; it is an argument for strengthening the law to close the loopholes...