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Many observers are already pointing to Iraq. “Phase two,” writes Tom Donnelly, in The Weekly Standard, “is a euphemism for Iraq. As the campaign in Afghanistan has progressed, a consensus has emerged that it is high time to remove Saddam Hussein from power...
...mediators have had little trouble persuading Afghan leaders gathered in Germany to accept the principle of a broad-based government. Then again, everyone at the conference has reason to be especially nice; the prize money for consensus is $20 billio n, the amount of aid the international community has pledged as a carrot to coax the fractious Afghans. The three days of talks that began Tuesday in Koenigswinter are aimed at finding agreement among various Afghan factions over some form of transitional g overnment to replace the Taliban - and avert a slide back into the civil...
...Still, the real struggle for power still rages in a dizzying whirl of battles, betrayals, retreats and horse-trading among the warlords in Afghanistan. The trickiest issue on the Koenigswinter agenda is almost certain to be the question of an international security force. While there may be a growing consensus among foreign observers and many Afghans on the need for some form of neutral security force to be deployed from outside, the Northern Alliance is having none of it. Rabbani insists that Afghanistan is secure and needs no more foreign troops within its borders, and strong opposition from the Alliance...
...bold three-year program updating trade rules set over half a century ago to meet the sophisticated demands of today?s global village. And a political message for those who feared that the Seattle antiglobalization protests of 1999 and the terrorist acts of Sept. 11 had crippled international consensus making...
Everything then seemed to fit into place: the environmental plans pushed by the E.U. were cleared, as were new issues of investment, competition and procurement. But then India?s Commerce Minister, Murasoli Maran, stunned the ministers by announcing he could not accept the deal. Under the WTO?s consensus rules, objections from just one country are enough to paralyze decisions. For 10 hours, the gutsy Maran took on the entire WTO until he was assured that the new issues would not be tackled for another two years. Was he intimated by the E.U. and the U.S. during the standoff...