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Flamboyant and Swiss are adjectives not often found in close proximity to each other, particularly when the individual being described is a career diplomat. Thomas Borer, who is both these things and was until April his country's ambassador to Germany, thinks this is a problem. "If you're a diplomat of a small country like Switzerland, you have to work on bringing a new image across, on raising the country's profile," he says. "You can only do this through your own personality. You have to make people have an interest...
...Without a strong army, Karzai has little chance of taming warlords like Zadran. And the U.S. still needs him to hunt for al-Qaeda (although officially a top American diplomat in Kabul says the U.S. military is no longer cooperating with Zadran). "Al-Qaeda is hunkered down waiting for an opening," says another diplomat in Kabul, "and a defection from a regional warlord could provide the cover that would allow these guys to climb out of their holes...
...been three years since veteran Australian diplomat Richard Butler held the job of chief weapons inspector for the United Nations, but he is still no friend of Baghdad. Last week, as the U.N. rejected an Iraqi proposal to hold talks about the possible resumption of weapons inspections and the Bush Administration continued its saber rattling in Saddam Hussein's direction, Butler again found himself the target of Iraqi ire. "Hans Blix [head of the U.N.'s current weapons-inspection program] has inherited the same duties undertaken by the spy Butler," Iraq's Foreign Minister told one Arab newspaper. Butler...
...biological and chemical weapons and the International Criminal Court. They want to register their objections to "regime change" in Iraq early, before an American military campaign becomes a fait accompli. "Much of the solidarity expressed for the U.S. after Sept. 11 has been whittled away," says one E.U. diplomat. "The standing of the Bush Administration is quite low in Europe, and many Europeans feel that a military attack on Iraq is yet another expression of American unilateralism." Be that as it may, the Europeans will have to do more than just say no to military adventures if they want...
...Atlantic would have us think. Most American and European officials would agree, for example, that military action to take out Saddam Hussein might eventually be necessary. Where they disagree is over what should happen before and after such action. "There is complete agreement on the diagnosis," says another Brussels diplomat. "It is the cure about which we differ." A more proactive and coherent E.U. foreign policy could make a crucial difference in finding a cure for Saddam that's not worse than the disease itself...