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Maybe the most honest lawmakers Tuesday were the ones who admitted defeat from the start. Massachusetts Democrat Bill Delahunt voted against both bills. "I do not believe that I know what I need to know before casting a vote of such profound consequence," he said. He feared that without a total ban, cloning would be inevitable; but as written, the ban was so broad it might block all kinds of important research. "I believe the issue deserves more than a cursory hearing and a two-hour debate," he said, "and it requires a characteristic which does not come easily...
...Global warming: F Kyoto was a singular defeat for the Bush administration on the international stage. It had hoped that by firmly nixing the treaty, it would force everyone back to the drawing board to negotiate a new approach. Instead, they went ahead and concluded a deal. Instead of leading, the U.S. now finds itself having to respond to the initiatives of others...
...danger, of course, is that if NATO troops are sent in to supervise the disarmament process and its breaks down, they could find themselves in the middle of a shooting war. Being forced to retreat would be a humiliating defeat for the West; trying to enforce the peace could force a bruising showdown with Albanian nationalists throughout the region...
...which one or two Israelis are killed every week in the West Bank or Gaza may be politically unsustainable in the long run for the Israeli government. After all, it was the deaths of almost 1,000 Israeli soldiers over an 18-year period, rather than any single dramatic defeat, that forced Israel to withdraw from Lebanon last year. And that's precisely the effect Palestinian militants want to mimic through a protracted low-intensity war in the West Bank and Gaza. There may be umpteen reasons why Lebanon is quantitatively different from the West Bank, but a steady toll...
Later that day, I watch Colombia defeat Honduras 1-0. Colombia is happy...