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...Hawks and Kangaroos Re "After Koizumi" [July 3]: you reported that Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe is known as a hawk and has even questioned the validity of the post-World War II Tokyo Tribunals war-crimes trials. I strongly support his position. Japan was forced to accept the judgments of the Tokyo Tribunals, a kangaroo court set up by the Allied forces as an act of revenge against Japan. It is high time that Japan declare it is not bound by the Tokyo Tribunals. Misao Nakaya Naha, Japan...
...Army brass had urged the political leadership to respond with precisely the kind of campaign Olmert has initiated, and Israeli forces practiced just such an operation in a tabletop exercise as recently as two months ago. After the soldiers' kidnapping, Olmert, according to one of his ministers, presented his Cabinet with the military's plans and after a discussion said he was approving the action. The Cabinet unanimously backed him: it was time to hit back, hard. The goal was not just to roll back Hizballah but to show that Israel is willing to fight. It was a message meant...
...officer-training course, emerging as a second lieutenant and polishing his political résumé.) Not that Olmert seems fazed by his past: he is outwardly macho and even arrogant. "He is not afraid to confront anyone, to make his place in history," says an aide to a Cabinet minister...
...just Hizballah targets but also Lebanese roads, bridges and runways as well as a naval blockade--plus the explicit threat of worse to come--would cow Hizballah. In addition to maintaining a militia, the group functions as a political party and has a representative in the Lebanese Cabinet. Hizballah represents the traditionally downtrodden Shi'ites of Lebanon, who live mostly in the south and the Dahiya suburb of Beirut, areas Israel has hit hard. The bombardment has driven an estimated half a million Lebanese from their homes; many will have only rubble to return to. The strikes on infrastructure...
ARTHUR BALFOUR AND ROBERT CECIL Ever heard the saying "Bob's your uncle"? It means "no problem" and refers to Cecil, a Victorian Prime Minister who named Balfour, his nephew, to a series of Cabinet posts...