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...need for Arab consent may be even greater in this case: the invasion of an Arab nation in the absence of any sense of regional crisis, and with the express purpose of replacing a hostile regime with one more palatable to Washington. And unless the U.S. is ready to commit tens of thousands of troops to long-term occupation in an intensely unfriendly environment, stabilizing a post-Saddam Iraq will require not only the consent, but the active cooperation and participation of all of its neighbors...
...indeed be difficult to pin a precise psychiatric diagnosis on involuntarily committed mental patient Rodney Yoder [TIME IN DEPTH, July 15], but do we need to? The law is clear that if a patient represents a danger to others, we are required to commit that patient, period. We psychiatrists are always going to be criticized when a person who ends up being a threat to others appears at first evaluation to have a treatable, nonthreatening condition. If you're wondering why there may be many patients locked up who shouldn't be, blame it on those...
...substantial terror networks on the archipelago, it is willing to take Washington's $50 million. As the cold war painfully taught us, it takes time, money, and unfortunately, boots on the ground to win a war this ambitious. The U.S., so far at least, has been willing to commit all three in Asia...
...give the President's political handlers pause. Hawks will argue that he has before him an historic opportunity to remake the politics of the entire Middle East on terms favorable to Washington; skeptics will warn that he could be initiating an epic quagmire that will destroy his presidency and commit the U.S. to a messy, even ruinous colonial mission...
...their afflicted relative has the more common "sporadic" Alzheimer's, which can't be attributed to a genetic glitch. The Barcelona team - believed to be the only one of its kind in Europe - has caused controversy in Spain. Might a healthy young person given the sentence of Alzheimer's commit suicide? What if an employer or an insurance company got hold of the information that a person was certain to succumb in mid-life? Molinuevo says the program is super-cautious when it comes to ethics. One indication is that he will say very little concerning the "about 20" people...