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...veto-wielding permanent members of the Security Council, Russia rejects the U.S.-British call for a new resolution, although it may eventually cave on that position. But France and China insist on excluding anything that could be construed as authorizing force until the Security Council has determined whether or not Iraq is complying with its undertakings, and that will likely force the U.S. to accept a two-step approach. Other states skeptical of U.S. motivations given that its stated objective is to seek regime-change in Baghdad will seek to soften terms that they see as designed to provoke...
...massive stone structure built by King Herod 2,000 years ago, is the grim living metaphor for dueling Abrahamisms. Despite God's promise that this land would be his people's one day, Abraham in Genesis makes a point of paying Ephron the Hittite 400 silver shekels for a cave in Hebron to serve as a burial plot. He and Sarah were laid there, and later, Scripture adds, so were Isaac and his wife Rebecca, his grandson Jacob and his first wife Leah. Herod erected a grandiose monument at what hethought was the site. For most of the past...
...getting enough creativity from his spooks, CIA Director George Tenet set up a "red cell" after 9/11, with a dozen free thinkers who dream up outlandish ways bin Laden might strike. The red cell has written some unusual papers for Tenet. One, for example, was titled "View from the Cave" and has bin Laden speaking in the first person (or as the cell envisions him doing so) and musing about Sept. 11 and his next attack...
...activities: Horseback riding; deer and turkey hunting in adjacent forest; Cave Run Lake Storytelling Festival, Sept...
...position following President Bush's UN speech a week ago in which he shifted the onus for avoiding war onto Baghdad by demanding that Saddam be forced to comply with UN resolutions he has routinely defied over the past decade. The administration may have expected Saddam to eventually cave in on the inspection issue, but not this quickly. If Baghdad had, as many expected, hedged and tried to set unacceptable preconditions for complying with UN demands, Washington would have maintained the diplomatic momentum to translate the consensus for demanding Iraqi compliance into support for an invasion. Instead, the dictator heeded...