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...concern at the State Department" about rising British bad feeling, not least because "Blair's support has been so noteworthy that they'd like to bend over backward to help." But Guantánamo is the military's turf, "and they couldn't give a rip," says one U.S. diplomat - London wasn't even given advance notice of the decision to try Abbasi and Begg in Guantánamo. Luigi Manconi, a former Italian senator who now heads the human- rights watchdog A Buon Diritto, thinks the Pentagon is in the grip of a preventive-war mentality...
...during his 84-year life, America's best scientist, inventor, diplomat, writer and business strategist, and he was also one of its most practical, though not most profound, political thinkers. He proved by flying a kite that lightning was electricity, and he invented a rod to tame it. He devised bifocal glasses and clean-burning stoves, charts of the Gulf Stream and theories about the contagious nature of the common cold. He was a pioneer of do-it-yourself civic improvement, launching such schemes as a lending library, volunteer fire corps, insurance association and matching-grant fund raiser. He helped...
...million annual budget represents only .00025% of the military's annual $400 billion outlay. "Closing the Peacekeeping Institute reflects the Army's priorities, but we're in danger of losing in Iraq because we haven't figured out how to do postwar missions," says Peter Galbraith, a former U.S. diplomat now lecturing military officers at the National Defense University. "We should be strengthening the peacekeeping component of our military, not diminishing...
...North presents legal and practical difficulties. One such obstacle: stopping ships on the high seas is questionable under international maritime law. The interception and boarding of a North Korean freighter in the Arabian Sea last December by Spanish patrol boats was not legally kosher, says a Western diplomat, despite the fact that the ship was found to be carrying North Korean-made Scud missiles to Yemen. The freighter was allowed to continue to its destination. Such interdictions will be "legally extremely complex, or just flat-out impossible," says the diplomat. However, a senior Bush Administration official says a proposed resolution...
...trade is hard to stop because it's impossible to tell whether so-called "dual-use" material and equipment are destined for peaceful purposes. North Korea is skilled at using front companies with ever-changing names to disguise the real end user. As a Western diplomat notes, a machine for freeze-drying coffee can also be used to make anthrax spores. Says Akio Igarashi of the Tokyo-based watchdog Center for Information on Security Trade Control: "With North Korea you don't know if a lunch box you export will end up as a container for nuclear material...