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...Since President George W. Bush is such a devout Christian, he should have known not to invade Iraq. A walk through the Old Testament provides vivid evidence of perpetual hatred between tribes. The invasion catapulted Iraq into its civil war. Robert E. Bee, Hudson, Florida...
...sectarian war between Sunnis and Shi'ites would be comparable to a civil war in the U.S. between Southern Baptists and Roman Catholics. If Iraqis cannot tolerate slight differences in practice of the same religion, how can they embrace democracy? One of the foundations of our democracy is the acceptance of different ideologies, including religion. It's time for Sunnis and Shi'ites to get over their mutual 1,300-year-old grudge. If Americans can accept a multitude of religious creeds among their compatriots, then surely the Iraqis can accept differences in the same religion. Ronn Ohl, Raleigh, North...
...become the Democrats' problem. Now that the Republicans have ceded control of Congress, they can do what they do best: claim to have the answers to everything without actually doing anything. After six years in power, Republicans have given us a massive deficit, a broken military, a loss of civil liberties and two disastrous wars. Of course they're smiling-they're con men with nothing to sell. David M. Caballero, Tucson, Arizona...
...notice the new mood: his critics, he said, could "go hang." Now 83, Mugabe has become increasingly repressive since he won the election at independence in 1980. Although technically a multiparty democracy, Zimbabwe is in effect a one-party state. The opposition - political parties, trade unions, churches and civil society organizations, all of them harassed by arrests and detentions - has been fractured since its failure in flawed elections in 2005. Last September an antigovernment demonstration was called off because organizers feared not enough people would turn out. People were too busy surviving the country's virulent inflation and too intimidated...
...anti-apartheid struggle in southern Africa. Among the poor and landless in South Africa, Mugabe's seizure of white farms went down well. Afraid of lighting a fire in his own country, Mbeki sits on his hands and will take a proactive role only if Zimbabwe collapses into civil...