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...nice - but also a very big a customer to lose. Saudi Arabia, without whom an effective embargo would be impossible, has spent three decades since the 1973 effort proving to financial markets that it is a reliable oil supplier (and a worthy recipient of U.S. aid); an embargo would destroy all that. And the economic recovery in Asia, Europe and the U.S. has now begun to bring prices up to where OPEC wants them - kill the recovery, kill the demand, and prices with...
...would know," says Uthaiwan Sawanarun, owner of J.J. Taxi Group, who staunchly adds that she would drive anyone who bad-mouthed Thaksin straight to the police. Newspapers and opposition politicians branded Thaksin as paranoid. "If Thaksin seriously believes that groups of people are planning around- the-clock to destroy him, then maybe he should see a doctor,'' says Jurin Laksanavisit, a senior member of the opposition Democrat Party. Thaksin is perfectly fine, according to his deputy health minister, who assured the Bangkok Post that the Prime Minister "falls asleep easily...
After 18 months of carnage, nearly every sidewalk in the Holy Land seems to be stained red, but it took last week's fighting--the most massive Israeli search-and-destroy operation in 20 years, carried out in retaliation for a numbing wave of suicide attacks against Israeli citizens--to make Bush realize that he could ignore the crisis no longer. Late last week intensified U.S. diplomacy helped produce a potential opening, as the two sides were considering a meeting that might lead to a cease-fire...
...sanctuaries in places like the Philippines, Yemen and Georgia but also to target and remove dangerous regimes developing weapons of mass destruction that could be used against the U.S. or its allies. For proponents of this new, more assertive foreign policy--premised on the use of military power to destroy potential threats to U.S. security before they become all too real--Iraq is the most obvious place to start...
...messy disputes between rival factions, President George W. Bush has expressly warned that Washington is not interested in any notion of "nation building." His military, already looking beyond Afghanistan at the next targets in the war on terror, is even more blunt. "We're here to kill and destroy al-Qaeda," says Sergeant Major Frank Grippe, a 10th Mountain Division ground commander, during Operation Anaconda. "It's that simple." General Tommy Franks, chief of Central Command, tells TIME: "Any evolution beyond that, in terms of support to the Afghan government, to the interim authority, will require a decision...