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...Iraqi people than they have to Hussein and his ruling elite. The Bush administration’s recent push to institute “smart sanctions”—measures that would strengthen currently lackluster enforcement on military-capable equipment and allow in more goods for purely civilian use—is a better way to prevent Iraq from increasing its military potential while also seeking support for continued sanctions in the international community...
...stalemate worked for Saddam, who was content to allow European and Arab humanitarian concerns over the impact of sanctions to slowly build pressure on the U.S. Even when it tried to revise the embargo with "smart sanctions" designed to target Saddam's weapons programs but ease up on his civilian economy, the Bush administration found little enthusiasm among Saddam's Arab neighbors and at the UN Security Council...
...interviews with Atta, Wasiq and dozens of their men and civilian eyewitnesses from the neighborhood around the school, I was able to piece together a full account of what happened...
Pocked with shell craters and fretted with tank tracks, the road from Taloqan to Kunduz was empty of civilian traffic. In the ditches were the bombed remains of Jeeps, tanks and armored personnel carriers. Now and then a truck jounced past carrying Northern Alliance soldiers to the Kunduz front, which had settled into a tense standoff between Alliance and Taliban forces. Inside Kunduz were some 6,000 Taliban and al-Qaeda troops, many of them Arab, Chechen or Pakistani holy warriors with no place in this world left to go. They had retreated into Kunduz after being routed at Mazar...
Bush’s order has already complicated America’s efforts to build a coalition against terrorism, and it has damaged our international standing even among allies—the Spanish government has already refused to extradite members of al Qaeda unless they can be guaranteed a civilian trial. Our efforts to fight terrorism must not be hindered by the administration’s refusal to heed universal norms of fair play...