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...true that Colin Powell was allowed to be diplomatic at the U.N. last fall, negotiating a unanimous vote on Security Council Resolution 1441, but that was an exception. Powell's bolder attempts at diplomacy - the attempt to negotiate with North Korea in 2001 and with Yasser Arafat in 2002 - have been thwarted by the White House. Arrogance has filled the vacuum. Significant allies like Turkey are bullied or bribed, or both; they are not consulted and not listened to. Even when the President says he wants to achieve a diplomatic solution, as in North Korea, he does so undiplomatically, against...
...already begun. Just as they did before the 1991 Gulf War, British and American commanders are doing everything they can to soften up Iraq for invasion. "We're on the offensive," says a senior Western diplomat in neighboring Kuwait. "We're in there. This war starts on our terms...
...southern Iraq, however, reconnaissance on the key city of Basra is proving difficult. Overhead surveillance can help identify targets and track large weapons and troop movements. "We know where everything is," the Western diplomat asserts. But Special Forces Groups face a much harder task, forging local alliances and even gauging what the mood is on the ground. "Southern Iraq is an intelligence black hole," says a senior British military source, noting that Marine assault units will be guided into the area by Iraqi exiles, some of whom haven't been inside their native land for a decade...
...tries to line up votes for a last-chance U.N. resolution, the U.S. is already discussing the prospect of U.N. involvement in a post-Saddam Iraq, according to TIME. "The United States will come to the U.N. for reconstruction help," says a senior U.N. diplomat, "and they...
...become a political priority for Bush. And so the President worked the phones all week, according to TIME. The White House denied to TIME that the U.S. offered any incentives to indecisive states, but the members weren?t so hesitant. "We're keeping our options open," says a diplomat from one swing country. "It's a tantalizing situation...