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...much as the council may be in a hurry to take the reins of government, Bremer is not rushing. The council has yet to establish its legitimacy in the eyes of ordinary Iraqis, and doing so will depend on its coalition sponsors delivering the security and normalcy that has eluded so many Iraqis since the war. As they assist and advise the occupation authority's management of these challenges, Bremer also wants them to begin the process of drawing up a new constitution, following which free elections could be held. After that, he says, the coalition's work will...
...explains why a U.S. official expects Blair's speech to Congress will have to "speak truth to power," if only to guard against more jibes at home about being Bush's poodle. He knows his oft-stated vision of a more cooperative global order - and maybe even his job - depend on whether he can help shift the U.S. toward a more respectful, accommodating attitude to the rest of the world. While he will be speaking for many countries beside his own, for Blair to preach internationalism in Bush's Washington is an experiment in irresistible force meeting immovable object - with...
...better be prepared to explain what you are doing and why. Successive Administrations during the Vietnam War were unable to do that. So, for the most part, were Albright and Clinton. Unless George W. Bush is extremely lucky over the next 15 months, his political future will depend on whether...
...Ultimately, choking off North Korea's trade will depend upon participation of its two traditional allies and major trading partners?China and Russia. Senior U.S. officials, according to sources, are constantly wheedling China to deny overflight rights to suspicious planes exiting North Korea, without success. Last week, China and Russia blocked a proposed condemnation of North Korea's nuclear arms program by the U.N. Security Council...
...their environment," says Ilan Kutz, an Israeli psychiatrist who has treated former captives. "If you can't control it, you lose the coordinates of the self." This, of course, is the plan. It sets the stage for a good cop--bad cop strategy in which the captive comes to depend on the supposed ally as the sole means of comfort and is thus likely to offer information to please...