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...Iraqi people, there are a lot of what they regard as terrorist actions by U.S. soldiers, unpunished killings of civilians, terrorist acts by different groups--foreign and domestic--and an outbreak of gangsterism, all of this confining them to their homes. They attribute this largely to the breakdown of the former Iraqi system and the failure of the U.S. to provide an adequate system to replace it. From their point of view, there are many forms of terrorism at play, all of which are ruining their lives...
...fact, the glacially slow progress of the road map was as responsible as anything for the breakdown. Palestinians, perhaps impatiently, had expected to see tangible improvement in their lives by signing on to the road map and the cease-fire. "We didn't agree to all this just to reopen the Gaza road," said a Hamas supporter a few weeks ago. Israelis, just as impatiently, expected the security forces of the Palestinian Authority, under Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas, to arrest, disarm and dismantle Hamas and other militant bands. Neither side delivered, and each accused the other of purposefully stalemating progress...
...blame for the breakdown will inevitably land at Abbas's door - the Bush Administration and Sharon will chide him for failing to find the political will to act against terrorism; the Palestinians will chide him for being duped by them. But the problem may lie not only with the actor, but with the script: The "roadmap" has not changed the salient reality for the Israelis, which is that terrorists with no interest in a peace process can, at will, exercise the option of killing Israeli children on the streets of Israeli cities. Nor has it changed the salient reality...
WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN. Pedro Almodovar directs this comedy filled with all your favorite soap-opera twists. Pepa, who realizes that her lover Ivan is leaving her, goes on a gun rampage and drugs Ivan’s son’s fiancee with Valium-laced gazpacho. The plot complicates when her friend Candela falls in love with a Shiite terrorist and hides out at Pepa’s home. Then she meets Ivan’s son, Carlos (Antonio Banderas). The 1988 Spanish comedy, filmed in Madrid, is irresistible. Women on the Verge...
...Uncertainty over the future (particularly among the Sunnis), the humiliation of occupation and the breakdown in security and services that has accompanied it has created fertile ground for the insurgency to grow, and the country is awash with weapons distributed by the old regime. An independent assessment commissioned by the Pentagon (downloadable from the Center for Strategic and International Studies warned that defeating the insurgency and winning the peace depends on the coalition very quickly turning around the security situation and restoring normalcy to the lives of ordinary Iraqis. "The 'hearts and minds' of key segments of the Sunni...