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...viewed as legitimate. That is hardly a new doctrine. Our Declaration of Independence refers to "a decent respect to the opinions of mankind" and says, "let Facts be submitted to a candid world." Republicans have been quick to rephrase Kerry's statements to imply that he would defer to the U.N. or get an O.K. from France. But even Bush submitted his rationale for the Iraq war to world opinion. Unfortunately, his reasons were more fantasy than fact. Bruce Garver Murrieta...
...viewed as legitimate. That is hardly a new doctrine. Our Declaration of Independence refers to "a decent respect to the opinions of mankind" and says, "let Facts be submitted to a candid world." Republicans have been quick to rephrase Kerry's statements to imply that he would defer to the U.N. or get an O.K. from France. But even Bush submitted his rationale for the Iraq war to world opinion. Unfortunately, his reasons were more fantasy than fact...
...local forces to take over the policing of the country and ensuring that planned elections proceed in January. He hopes to have 125,000 Iraqi security forces trained by the end of this year and 200,000 by next summer, up from 98,500 now. Bush says he will defer to his military commanders on the question of future levels of U.S. forces, which now number about 137,000. Meanwhile, the U.S. is trying to seize control of rebel-held towns in the Sunni triangle by flooding them with Iraqi security forces and reconstruction...
...world, the U.N. and NATO are now looking to get out, and fast. In a recent U.N. report, Kai Eide, a veteran Norwegian diplomat, said the U.N. needed urgently to refocus its efforts on transferring authority to local leaders and ending its present mission: "We can no longer defer the most difficult issues to an indefinite future." There is no more difficult issue than Kosovo's independence - and no middle ground between the two communities' views. Kosovar Albanian leaders want results now. "Independence," the Kosovar Albanian Prime Minister Bajram Rexhepi told Time, "is necessary for our development. Any [further] delay...
...surgery] will make it difficult (academically) to matriculate this year so he will defer and enroll next year,” Harvard coach Tim Murphy wrote in an email...