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...artful equivocation is an almost impossible concept to explain, but it is easy to demonstrate. Let us begin with the question, “Did the philosophical beliefs of Hume represent the spirit of the age in which he lived...
That Colin Powell emerged relatively empty-handed from his Mideast trip to promote the U.S. peace "roadmap" is no reflection on the Secretary of State's powers of persuasion - it's simply a reminder of the limits of the "roadmap" concept in the face of the situation on the ground in Israel and the Palestinian territories, and, of course, in Washington. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon declined, at this stage, to endorse the "roadmap" that requires a sequence of steps by each side designed to achieve a Palestinian state living peacefully alongside Israel within three years. Sharon may, of course...
...roadmap" - its prescriptions for reviving the peace process are essentially a collation of recommendations in the Mitchell Report, the Tenet "work plan" and the Zinni cease-fire proposals. Two years of truce initiatives have come to naught, and if anything, the conflict is even more intractable now. The "roadmap" concept may be an attempt to bridge Israeli and Palestinian concerns by linking a cease-fire to a "political horizon" for Palestinian statehood, but it contains no new magic formula for resolving the basic standoff over security...
...wouldn't. For starters, the concept of "liberal imperialism" is history written by the victors. For those on its receiving end, imperialism--whatever its economic benefits may have been--meant one thing: rule by someone else. It is beyond the bounds of human generosity for such a state to continue for long; occupation breeds resentment no matter how well-intentioned. In the mid-1990s I met many people in Hong Kong who appreciated the benefits British rule had brought; it was hard to find anyone who wanted such rule to continue indefinitely...
...that any country that has harbored a terrorist, plans terrorist attacks or helps others carry out such attacks against the U.S. is who's next. The U.S. is not at war with only a few people or even a few nations. We are at war with the entire concept of international terrorism. MICHAEL BUSSIO Scotts Valley, Calif...