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GOING GLOBAL IN IRAQ Facing continued violence and an $87 billion bill, President Bush wants to share the burden. His policy, and political future, may depend...
...have argued that putting cable in the dormitories will only take away from the academic experience, with students finding more time for MTV and less time for Moral Reasoning. But for some reason, the other seven of the Ancient Eight have somehow found a way to persevere through the burden of cable television, and continue to succeed academically. With the advent of new technology, the possibilities for gaining access to cable have become much stronger. And this can happen much sooner than many would think. I urge the administration to make a firm commitment to implementing cable television by fall...
...regime and terrorism. Even if the administration now swears it never implied any connection between Iraq and the attacks, the fact that so many Americans believe that association - and therefore, obviously, hold it as a central reason for the U.S. invasion of Iraq - must be worrying. Because as the burden of occupation on ordinary Americans grows heavier, the fact that the postwar reality debunks the myth of a Saddam connection to 9/11 may nonetheless function to diminish enthusiasm for the administration's war effort...
...much as the new spirit of cooperation suggests some measure of acceptance of a shared burden in Iraq - or perhaps, more correctly, a sense of shared consequences if Iraq remains unstable - the debate over political control in Baghdad is a reminder that neither side is willing to give ground on the positions that divided them so sharply before the war. The Bush administration insists that both the reasons for the invasion, and the strategy adopted, remain valid despite mounting domestic concern. But in the eyes of much of the international community, neither the U.S. case for invading Iraq...
...Even as the wrangling at the UN continues, it's far from clear that even a new Security Council resolution would significantly lighten the U.S. military burden in Iraq. Countries such as India, Pakistan and Turkey, where domestic opposition to deployment in Iraq remains strong, remain uncommitted, and even with a UN resolution in place some may look for other reasons to stay home from a dangerous and open-ended mission. In the case of Turkey, which the Pentagon is hoping to convince to replace U.S. troops in the fiery "Sunni Triangle," the situation is made more complex also...