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Healing Earth, Healing Ourselves Your article on Darfur clearly spelled out how climate change can generate conflict [May 7]. I don't understand why it is so politically incorrect to say plainly that the world is getting overpopulated and more people need to use birth control. And if the oceans are rising even as various regions lack potable water, why isn't there more discussion about building desalination plants around the world? The U.S. National Security Council and the U.N. always respond to crises like Darfur by sending peacekeepers and money. Why don't they try the more viable solutions...
...lives simply isn’t worth it. If this president refuses to withdraw on his own terms, Congress will have no choice but to escalate the stalemate. It should set a deadline, not for bring American troops home from Iraq, but for revoking its authorization of the Iraq conflict. By repealing its authorization of the use of military force, passed in October of 2002, but not delaying funding for troops deployed in Iraq, Congress could undermine any moral legitimacy that President Bush can still claim for continuing to throw soldiers into the morass while avoiding accusations of undercutting troops...
...movement he helped lead was never monolithic, or as tidy as its critics imagine - or obedient to earthly powers. In every generation, Christians have wrestled with the question of whether their efforts are better spent changing laws or changing hearts, and how to proceed when those goals seem to conflict. Falwell enthusiastically practiced the politics of division, flinging damnation at those who disagreed with his vision of a Godly America. Now a rising generation of Christian leaders is looking for ways to bring people together: the politics of division may be a shrewd electoral strategy, but it's a shallow...
...industrialized world to take the lead in combating the environmental crises whose greatest impact is on the poorest nations. Says Reyni?, the sum of Chirac's foreign policy reflected a world-view "that stresses multilateralism, and supports cultural diversity as a manner of both enhancing peace and resolving conflict." And it is this combination of advancing French national interests while going to bat for smaller allies that often allowed France to punch beyond its diplomatic weight category. "In hindsight, I think we'll see Chirac viewed as the statesman who neglected the hard decisions at home in favor of projecting...
...unilateral cease-fire. If the Palestinian government collapses, Israel may soon resume strikes against militant leaders and rocket cells, which in turn will likely escalate the attacks. Israeli security officials have admitted there is no military solution to the rockets, but they may be drawn further into the conflict if Gaza militants begin using longer range Katyusha rockets, of the kind used by Hizballah from Lebanon last summer, and which Israel fears may have been smuggled into Gaza...