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...that credibility was already taking a beating. Every time Bush tried to regain his footing, he tripped over more bad news and more second guesses, including those from his own team. The military and civilian death toll in Iraq continued to climb, so that the recently optimistic Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi sounded darker about the prospects for stability any time soon. British hostage Kenneth Bigley was beheaded. It emerged that U.S. forces had found floor plans of schools in six American states on a computer disc in Iraq, which launched a round of newscasters interviewing school superintendents from Florida...
...Israel's wall has prevented Palestinian suicide bombers from reaching Israel as easily, but if anything, it has increased the incentive and motivation of those thus thwarted to find other means of bringing pain to Israelis. And global experience shows that motivation and the support or consent of a civilian population is the decisive ingredient of a terror...
...California. U.S. Of Life and Law You asked, appropriately enough, "Does the Koran Condone Killing?" [Sept. 20] and then focused primarily on the beheading of hostages by insurgents in Iraq. Why not ask whether the Bible condones killing and explore the bombing, shelling and deaths of thousands of innocent civilians in Iraq? From the fire bombings of Dresden and Tokyo to the nuclear holocausts of Nagasaki and Hiroshima, the U.S. appears to have no particular scruples about causing civilian deaths. Dennis Green Alameda, California...
...arrived in a world that had long been ignored by most of the outside world, save when its exploitation proved profitable. Mexico has seen an odd combination of civilian rule and illiberal policy, of great growth and modernization and extreme poverty and remnants of an old system, which created a constant tension between the successfully co-opting government and those few who sought to protest the lingering injustices. The Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) long held virtually complete power and brought many changes to larger Mexico, but few to Chiapas...
...same unfortunate disregard for the suffering and death of foreigners in Haiti is also, regrettably, seen in American coverage of Iraq. The American media immediately and in great detail cover the deaths of American soldiers and constantly replay stories relating to the deaths of American civilian contractors. However, the same news organizations that seem so overly concerned with American lives make scant mention of far larger numbers of Iraqi dead, side-noting casualties that sometimes get into the dozens in just a single...