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Reading Michael Elliott's commentary on President Bush's new military doctrine of pre-emptive attack was like watching a cowboy try to rope a tornado [GLOBAL AGENDA, July 1]. Elliott's insistence that some definable rules should apply to this doctrine was an amusingly arrogant demand for intellectual control. But the U.S. is facing an acute life-or-death situation in which it needs no formal doctrine to permit a first strike against those who wish to kill us. For Elliott to warn that our prerogative to strike pre-emptively without a neat list of rules invites "international anarchy...
...cold war. Often, the best option was to hope that things would turn out better one day and do what little one could to help them along. Clinton's team managed to do that with Russia. That's worth raising a glass to. Yeltsin certainly did. --By Michael Elliott...
...differ with part of Michael Elliott's view in "Not All Terrorists Are Alike" [ESSAY, June 10]. Elliott agrees with the assertion of Rohan Gunaratna, author of a scholarly study on al-Qaeda, that Osama bin Laden "never interpreted Islam to assist a given political goal. Islam is his political goal." This idea implies that bin Laden's attempts to undermine secular governments and establish Islamic religious law are not political in nature. While his stated goals include the ouster of U.S. troops from Arab soil and the destruction of Israel, bin Laden uses terrorist means to push his political...
...Michael Elliott. Reported by Massimo Calabresi and Elaine Shannon/Washington; Bruce Crumley/Paris; and Nelly Sindayen/Manila
Facing a strong Brown squad in a sold-out Lavietes Pavilion and on national television, junior forward Sam Winter took a nice pass from classmate Elliott Prasse-Freeman and proceeded to slam it down with authority. The dunk ended a Bears run near the end of the game and effectively sealed the win for the Crimson...