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...uprising, tens of thousands of Shi'ites and Kurds were killed by the raw power of Saddam's helicopters and tanks and secret police. What was different this time? No Saddam. The American army had come ashore to disarm and depose him. After the sword, it provided the shield to allow 8 million Iraqis to revel in their first exercise of democratic self-governance...
...Peter Schoch Meisterschwanden, Switzerland Who Can Defuse the U.S.? TIME reported that America is trying to persuade Iran to give up its nuclear ambitions in "Can the U.S. Defuse Iran?" [Feb. 14]. But the real question is not whether the U.S. can defuse Iran but whether the world can disarm the U.S., the world's No. 1 nuclear power. James Butler Stuart, Florida, U.S. Under its current neoconservative Administration, the U.S. doesn't have the strength of mind to defuse anything. So far, all George W. Bush has achieved is to create more terrorists by bombing Iraq and torturing detainees...
TIME REPORTED THAT AMERICA IS TRYING to persuade Iran to give up its nuclear ambitions in "Can the U.S. Defuse Iran?" [Feb. 14]. But the real question is not whether the U.S. can defuse Iran but whether the world can disarm the U.S., the world's No. 1 nuclear power...
...resort of Sharm el-Sheikh last week, Abbas went into his first meeting with Sharon since Abbas' election as President of the Palestinian Authority. Sitting across a long oblong table in an airy conference room, Sharon reiterated to Abbas his demand that the Palestinians take immediate steps to disarm the militants of Hamas before Israel agrees to resume peace talks. "Wait, wait, give me a break," Abbas said, according to Israeli officials who attended the meeting. "I've only been in office a couple of weeks." Sharon showed no sympathy. "You've got to move faster," he said...
...Sharon, of course, insists he has no intention of dealing with the likes of Hamas and the al-Aqsa Brigades, and insists that if Abbas is serious about reviving the U.S.-backed ?roadmap? to peace his first priority will be to systematically disarm and dismantle the organizational infrastructure that would allow those groups to return to arms should the ?hudna? fail. Having voluntarily embraced a ceasefire, Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the Al Aqsa brigades have made clear they have no intention of disarming - and Israeli security officials warn against accepting an arrangement that simply allows them breathing space. But Abbas...