Word: belief
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...should not be surprised by the Iraqi insurgency. Iraqis see the American and coalition forces as occupiers, not liberators. Why shouldn't there be resistance? Remember: neither the international community nor the U.N. approved the occupation, the belief that Saddam threatened the world with weapons of mass destruction was false, and the horrible events of 9/11 had nothing to do with Iraq. Having decided to invade a sovereign country, the Bush Administration finds it cannot walk away. This adventure had disaster written all over it from the start. Derrick Elliston London...
...Taiwan's Kuomintang (KMT) party described the problems it is facing after losing the presidential election [April 19]. I take strong exception to the view that the kmt is an ailing dinosaur whose time is over. The real issue for the majority of voters in Taiwan, regardless of political belief, is not who governs but whether the election process and the vote held on March 20 were legal, objective and fair. If many of us who oppose President Chen Shui-ban could believe that his election was honest, we would accept our defeat, determined to come back again in another...
...proportion of Brad Pitt's pectoral muscles," he says, and gives a 10minute soliloquy on Pitt's physique. Petersen also muses at length on the importance of having soup at 11 a.m., the merits of eating at the same restaurant every night while shooting and his belief that Peter O'Toole secretly craves advice on acting. "I nudge him," says Petersen...
...This is not rocket science. It is conventional wisdom among democracy and human-rights activists-and yet the Administration allowed itself to be blinded by righteousness. Why? Because moral pomposity is almost always a camouflage for baser fears and desires. Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and the neoconservatives share a primal belief in the use of military power to intimidate enemies. If the U.S. didn't strike back "big time," it would be perceived as weak. (Crushing the peripheral Taliban and staying focused on rooting out al-Qaeda cells wasn't "big" enough.) The President may have had some personal motives-doing...
...experts involved in Olympic preparations expect some kind of attempted attack during the Games. Before the Madrid bombings on March 11, when "every attempt by an al-Qaeda affiliate in Europe had been foiled," says Israel's Karmon, experts were more optimistic. Now, he says, "there is strong belief that al-Qaeda related groups may try to act during the Games." A Western government security official, speaking to Time on condition of anonymity, agreed: "There is little question something will be hit." U.S. officials are particularly concerned about the apparent inability of Greek authorities to keep track of people moving...