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...failure of imagination. Neshe Yashin, a Turkish-Cypriot poet and peace activist who lives on the Greek side of the island, says that the political class "are all nationalists. And not only that, they are fighters. They killed each other. This is the class that benefits from the conflict." Says a U.N. official: "There's no public debate about how to find a solution. There is no civil society. The politicians monopolize the debate and exploit it for their own ends. They are incredibly well-organized and ruthless, and the business community has to toe the line." Three years...
...the U.N., Charles Krauthammer argued that violence and greed are "the natural way of nations" [Oct. 23]. That is the lazy man's excuse for resisting change and progress. As a means to create security and stability, war has failed over the millenniums. Our experiment in international collaboration, nonviolent conflict resolution and mutually beneficial partnerships--still in its infancy--will continue to suffer missteps and setbacks, not the least of which include the present U.S. Administration's uninformed and shortsighted policies. My hope for the future of civilization lies in the goals, purposes and accomplishments...
...painful reality, having endured exclusion from the supposedly universal world body because of Chinese pressure for more than three decades. But there is no civilized alternative to the principle of international cooperation in pursuit of the common good. The world's only hope for the ethical, nonviolent resolution of conflict--whether in the Taiwan Strait, on the Korean peninsula or anywhere else--lies in the collective cooperation of U.S.-led democracies. Give up that hope, and we are lost indeed...
Iraq is checkered by different religions and ethnicities, its history marked by forced relocations and bloody conflict. The current Sunni-Shi'ite war has once again changed the demographic map of Iraq, leading some to call for the country to be split into three states. But carving up Iraq could displace millions, provoke struggles for the control of territory and make the bloodshed even worse. Shi'ite Arabs 60% Sunni Arabs 20% Kurds 17% Others...
...that began on July 12 has dramatically altered Lebanese politics. Siniora's allies - an anti-Syria coalition of Sunni and Druze Muslims along with some Christians - blame Hizballah for provoking the conflict by kidnapping two Israeli soldiers, and accuse it of being a pawn in Iran's regional power game. But, Hizballah, the country's largest Shia Muslim party, suspects Siniora of collaborating with the United States and Israel in pursuit of their regional ambitions...