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...United States went to war, the fighting in the Middle East played out here in a series of protests and counter-protests. Personal nastiness re-emerged, as though justified by political passion. Serious confrontations were avoided during demonstrations. But all parties tested the limits of regulations designed to protect the rights of the nonpartisan majority to study and live in peace, while protecting the rights of groups advocating a point of view to express that view visibly and audibly to those who chose to listen. There was, of course, nothing new in all that, except the issues being contended...
Terrorism's appeal will endure where people have no experience with the fruits of self-government. We cannot counter it by advocating freedom only where it wouldn't unsettle economic and security relationships with undemocratic regimes. Until all the world's remaining despotic regimes--be they profoundly cruel or in some respects more benevolent--are replaced by democratically committed regimes, terrorism will always find new adherents, and the threat to America's security and ideals will persist. Change has come to Afghanistan. It must be protected there. But change must also come to Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Pakistan, Iran, the Palestinian...
...surrounding the conference. At the Ubuntu Village (ubuntu is Zulu for humanity), booths touting the environmental credentials of multinational oil companies stood beside those of tiny green groups. One promoted the teachings of Mohandas Gandhi as environmentally friendly. "Gandhi was green 100 years ago," said a woman behind the counter. Another displayed recyclable oil filters that use an ingenious toilet-paper-like roll to trap particles. The Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University nestled in next to Sustainable Switzerland. A group promoted condom use to stop the spread of aids. A woman from the Haida Indian community in western Canada touted...
...entire Washington bureaucracy of both administrations will ultimately be held responsible for the failure to recognize the terrorist threat and take steps to counter it. But it was during the eight years of Clinton's presidency that the threat grew and metastasized into the cancer that we live with today. No amount of spin will ever change that. DOUG ISRAEL New York City...
...about Iraq is also a battle about Israel. GOP critics of a rush to military action say that if the Bush administration is serious about going after Saddam, it had better push Israel and the Palestinians back to the negotiating table first. Advocates of a quick and decisive war counter that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict can't be resolved right now, and therefore shouldn't be an obstacle to action, and, they say, the Middle East will actually be safer without Saddam around...