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...daily sessions held to review the alert level, Central Intelligence Agency officials disagreed with the FBI's assessment, arguing that, as one source put it, "there's no cause for breathing easier - the principal reasons for going to Orange are still out there." And until Thursday, the CIA argument carried...
...view in which a post-Saddam Iraq serves as a beacon of secular liberalism for its authoritarian neighbors, even facilitating peace between Israel and the Palestinians by removing a source of encouragement to suicide bombers. But the Arab and European allies that have opposed this war have heard this argument before, and it hasn't convinced them. Nor is it likely to break the deadlock at the UN Security Council, where the U.S., Britain and Spain are pushing a resolution that would give, if not explicit authorization, at least a nod to war, while France, Russia and Germany insist that...
...foreign policy." But more important, as a direct result of CIA intervention in foreign countries, despotic dictators were given the power to politically oppress their people and to imprison, torture and murder them. Ironically, these are among the same abuses that the U.S. government now cites in its argument for a military invasion of Iraq. Our policymakers continue to demonstrate a purely self-serving attitude toward the populations of poor non-Western countries. SHARON CONNOR Encinitas, Calif...
...Crimson’s argument in support of the Senate Democrats’ filibuster of Miguel Estrada’s nomination to the D. C. Court of Appeals is ostensibly in the service of an open nomination process (“The Senate should never confirm a lifetime judicial nomination without first having an idea of that person’s interpretation of the law.”), but it is in fact political (Editorial, “Trashing Estrada,” Feb. 19). “If Estrada is confirmed, other staunch conservative candidates are likely...
...center of Collins’ arguments, which he presented over three nights as the William Belden Noble Lectures, are two different arguments for the relevance of the Deity. The first argument holds that God is the prime mover who is responsible for the universe in unknowable ways. This view posits that some force determined the measurements of the universe—such as the charge on an electron—to optimize them so humans could evolve. Cosmologists generally agree that the chance of a universe having the properties of ours seems exceedingly small. Supporters of this first conception...