Word: disrupter
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...much more unsettling. The blunt conclusion of the bipartisan House and Senate joint inquiry into the causes of 9/11, released last week, was that while no one in the government "identified the time, place and specific nature of the attacks," the government lost repeated opportunities to detect, if not disrupt, the hijackers...
...insurgency confined to the Sunni minority can harass and disrupt U.S. efforts for months or even years, but as Bremer has noted it does not represent a strategic threat to the U.S. position in Iraq. That might change, however, if the rebellion extended to the Shiite majority. Two major Shiite parties previously exiled in Iran have, with the blessing of Iraq's Grand Ayatollah, joined the Iraqi Governing Council established by Bremer, and are therefore committed to pursuing their goal of ending the occupation through cooperation with the U.S. But those groups are facing a growing and increasingly militant challenge...
...Blair would probably consider that a win too, but Bush will be reluctant to set this precedent even for his good buddy Tony. "There's no good solution," says a Whitehall official, "because the U.S. picked up these guys after Sept. 11 with one priority only, which was to disrupt possible al-Qaeda activity and find out what they knew. Everything else was, 'We'll deal with it later.' Now it's later, and there are only bad and worse outcomes." It just adds to the burdens Blair is taking to Washington this week. His instinct to stick closely...
...Jean-Claude Graziani, secretary-general of the CGT union in Upper Corsica. "It managed to lose a Corsican vote that should have been an easy win, and picked the opening of summer festivals to provoke arts workers." Unions promise renewed national strikes in September. For now, protests continue to disrupt, shut down and perhaps even bankrupt festivals. "This is a terrible waste not just for visitors, but for the troupes who came from around the world and can't perform," laments retired doctor Alexandre Lumbroso, who arrived in Avignon for his 15th straight year to learn the program had been...
...lost politically, in the hearts and minds of Iraqis. And Iraqis will judge the U.S. first and foremost on its ability to deliver security and restore the basic functioning of a society free of Saddam's chokehold - a mission the insurgents will, undoubtedly, be doing their utmost to disrupt at every turn. It may be premature to say the battle is being lost, but nor is it possible, yet, to claim that it is being won. Which may be why Washington's only viable exit strategy from Iraq, right now, may require increasing, rather than decreasing its commitment...