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...could, if necessary, fight a war in two theaters. That's an inadequate justification for current U.S. policy. (The Secretary also fails to mention the horrible potential cost of a second Asian front. During the latter half of the 20th century the U.S. lost more lives in combat in Asia than in wars in the rest of the world combined.) The current approach of treating Kim Jong Il as less dangerous than Saddam Hussein and the North Korean problem as little more than a troubling sideshow is what opens the U.S. to accusations of caring more about oil than security...
...possible," AK leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan told deputies. To sweeten the pot, the U.S. promised up to $15 billion in grants and backing for loans. It also agreed to let Turkey send its own troops into northern Iraq once the war started; not to occupy territory or engage in combat, but to contain Kurdish militants along the Turkish border and set up refugee camps to prevent an influx of Kurds into Turkey's unstable southeast. The vote brought no joy for most Turks, though, who remain against the war. "Turkey had no real choice," says analyst Mehmet Ali Birand...
...senior U.S. intelligence official. "Name a country anywhere, and [the CIA] can identify with a couple of telephone calls four or five people who will have a variety of skills to go into that country if it becomes a difficult place." Green Berets can operate covertly in a combat zone, but they would stick out like sore thumbs if they tried to infiltrate a foreign city, because they don't have the intelligence network in place to conceal themselves. "We have the ability to hide in plain sight, get in and get out before anybody figures...
...fact is that this latest initiative only continues Bush’s trend of acting unilaterally to solve a problem faced by the entire international community. Rather than donate $2.5 billion to an international effort to combat AIDS worldwide, Bush now commits the country to $3 billion per year to attack AIDS in a single continent. The infrastructure already exists to fund AIDS alleviation across the globe, but Bush will waste resources creating a separate establishment in order to have complete control over where the money goes...
...fears that a war would anger citizens because of the royal family's close ties to the U.S. As first reported on time.com the Saudis are encouraging a coup against Saddam. If war comes, they may still refuse to permit the launch of U.S. ground troops or Air Force combat missions from their soil, though both were permitted in 1991. But the Saudis are likely to allow U.S. command and control functions, special-operations missions and refueling...