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...social benefits for the last 20 years. Financing those benefits has created a debt whose annual interest approaches France's total annual income-tax revenues. Against this backdrop, Villepin has managed to drive onto the streets not just youth who are locked out of the labor market, but also civil-servant trade unions, which habitually block reform on the pretext of resistance against what they sloppily label "ultraliberalism." Such unholy alliances have characterized France's numerous civil wars. In 1358, the jacqueries (peasant uprisings), which gave birth to the modern state, united peasants against the nobility. The nobility, in turn...
...EXTRADITION AGREED. CHARLES TAYLOR, 58, former Liberian President; from Nigeria. Taylor was forced into exile in 2003 as part of a deal to end Liberia's civil war but is said to have breached the terms by meddling in Liberian politics. A war-crimes tribunal in Sierra Leone accuses him of fueling a civil war in that country. Liberia's President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf has said she will send Taylor to Sierra Leone...
...long as the eye-for-an-eye mentality dominates Middle East thought and behavior, there is little hope for a peaceable solution to Iraq's incipient civil war [March 6]. The philosophy of perpetual retaliation is devoid of love and not a part of God's plan for the human family. If the world hopes to survive and thrive, a holy war between Christian, Jewish and Islamic factions must be avoided. It is time to bury the sword and put on the mantle of love that should be worn in churches, synagogues and mosques everywhere. Paul L. Whiteley Sr. Louisville...
...Your cover story gave an apocalyptic view of Iraq and perhaps a plausible excuse for Bush's antagonists to smirk. But Iraq will come out of this quagmire just as the U.S. did after its Civil War. Iraq needs only to look within itself to solve its problems, like any other nation. What Iraq is going through often happens to people who are given a chance for self-awareness, self-discovery and self-expression?a chance to exhale?after having been oppressed, shackled, silenced and placed in the dark. The unfortunate thing is that terrorists and enemies of the free...
...worth it to spend over 2,000 American lives and 100s of billions of dollars to bring a stable nation in the Middle East to the door of civil war? The question is silly. This has been the first Great Debacle of the 21st Century...