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...death-penalty process--at the center of a growing national debate over the fallibility of capital punishment. Although polls show that Americans overwhelmingly believe in the moral righteousness of executing murderers for their crimes, they turn squeamish at the thought of an innocent's being punished for another's evil deeds. Thanks to DNA testing and other forensic advances, convictions are being overturned with increasing frequency...
There's a telling anecdote in David Frum's new memoir of his year as a White House speechwriter for George W. Bush. Early in the presidency, Frum--who later received credit for the deathless, and perhaps senseless, phrase "axis of evil"--submits a speech. The President eviscerates it. Frum asks why. "The material he had hacked out," Frum writes, "seemed to me the headline story of the event. Bush shook his head at me. The Headline is: BUSH LEADS...
President Bush is "sick and tired of games and deceptions" where Iraq is concerned, but North Korea appears to be quite a different matter. Tuesday, even as the President threatened a war to disarm Iraq, he offered an olive branch to its fellow "Axis of Evil" state North Korea - unlike Iraq, a proven and proud offender in both the nuclear and the proliferation field. The president affirmed that the U.S. was offering North Korea food and energy aid if it agrees to stop its nuclear program, an approach he labeled a "bold initiative." But to Korea watchers, the offer...
...itself having to convince Americans of the need to go to war over Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, while engaging in negotiations over North Korea's goes to the heart of why State Department officials dealing with Asia had been so alarmed by the president's "Axis of Evil" speech. There are plenty of good reasons for treating Iraq and North Korea as unique and entirely separate issues, but the link between them was established by the Bush Administration's own rhetoric...
...reunification talks are scheduled to be held this week. Simply put, the South does not perceive Kim Jong Il to be as dangerous or unreasonable as the U.S. does. In fact, many South Koreans view America as the aggressor?Bush's inclusion of North Korea in his "axis of evil" was tantamount to telling Kim Jong Il his days as dictator, like Saddam Hussein's, are numbered. That echoes North Korea's oft-repeated line that America, despite assurances to the contrary from U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, plans to invade and so the North must develop nuclear weapons...