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...have no doubt that Saddam is a brutal dictator. And I am well aware that he has failed to live up to the conditions of the 1991 truce. But I doubt that any of this makes him more "evil" than a number of other current officeholders around the world. Nor do I understand why President George W. Bush thinks it is the job of the U.S. to eliminate brutal dictators. America's foreign policy has often supported these same brutal dictators--including Saddam--when they have been on "our side." Bush's use of the word evil comes close...
...that we are dust. If Christians could remember that we have not been created to live forever, we might be able to help ourselves and our non-Christian brothers and sisters to speak more modestly and, thus, more truthfully and save ourselves from the alleged necessity of war against "evil...
...international politics itself. Perhaps Schroder, Chirac et al. have become too uncomfortable with Gulliver Unbound, with a giant whose strength is no longer stalemated by the Soviet Union. They may see America's power play, let alone its triumph, in the Middle East as a greater evil than Saddam and his weapons of Armageddon. If so, the name of the game is to put the ropes back on Gulliver--to constrain and contain him. Or: "Let's all gang...
Craig Newmark runs his empire from the first-floor parlor of a tidy Victorian-style flat in San Francisco's cozy Cole Valley neighborhood. "I spent all morning fighting evil," says the soft-spoken computer programmer, who founded a modest electronic mailing list for local San Francisco events in 1995 that has spread to 17 other cities, from Phoenix, Ariz., to Boston, and evolved into a virtual community drawing more than a million visitors a month. Through its online classified ads, racy personals and raucous discussion groups, Craig's List craigslist.org has become the best one-stop-shopping place...
...evil that Newmark believes he is fighting is spammers, scammers and other cyberparasites who threaten to chase away his site's loyal following. "The culture of trust we've built is a really big deal," says Newmark, 50, who spends most of his workdays patrolling the message boards and dealing with customer-service problems reported by members. "We have to re-earn that every...