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Iraq's probably the last thing anyone in Washington is thinking about during this election season, and that may be making life easier for Saddam Hussein. The U.S. and British air raids on the southern Iraqi city of Samawa over the weekend, which Iraq alleges struck civilian targets, highlight the problem posed by Washington's strategy - or, perhaps, the absence of a strategy. Besides maintaining U.N. sanctions in the face of growing concern in the Gulf War alliance that these have no positive effect, the U.S. and Britain remain militarily engaged against Iraq by policing the "no-fly" zones they...
...Presidential Medal of Freedom is the highest civilian honor in the country, awarded each year to Americans who have made major contributions to national interests, world peace or to other significant public or private endeavors...
...trying to hatch a deal similar to the one he negotiated with the U.S., Japan and South Korea that mothballed his nuclear weapons program in exchange for oil shipments and civilian nuclear reactors. If so, it might slow the U.S. rush to deploy missile defenses, at least for now. Why erect a shield if the country you're worried about isn't building the missiles? Launching North Korea's commercial satellites would be expensive, but not nearly as much as the $60 billion missile defenses could cost...
...Chilean court's decision may be the ultimate vindication of Judge Balthazar Garzon, the Spanish activist prosecutor who authored Pinochet's arrest pending extradition in Britain two years ago. Until then, putting Pinochet on trial in Chile had seemed unthinkable, with the military having only allowed a return to civilian rule in exchange for immunity. But the general's detention in Britain for 18 months, followed by the election of center-left prime minister Ricardo Lagos, who had once been a political prisoner under Pinochet, emboldened his accusers. Indeed, the general eluded a Spanish courtroom only by convincing a panel...
...battle over the scheme. And that should sound a warning to the next U.S. president that the free ride from Russia is over. Putin visited Pyongyang Wednesday, and got North Korea's "Dear Leader" Kim Jong Il to agree to scrap his missile program in exchange for help with civilian space exploration. The specifics of the plan - which include the somewhat unlikely scenario of the U.S. supplying North Korea with a civilian rocket program - are less important than the overall picture. Washington insisted it needed to build its National Missile Defense program by 2005 in order to counter a purported...