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...Other advocates of the invasion are ready to concede to the deception, but only to the extent that the time-frame was exaggerated. Okay, so Saddam posed no immediate threat to the U.S. but he would eventually pose such a threat, so better to eliminate his regime now - thus former NSC staffer Ken Pollack. The Democrats appear confused on whether to exploit the intelligence meltdown, with most hewing cautiously to the belief that the WMD claims that justified their vote for war will eventually emerge. But presidential contender Senator John Kerry this week accused President Bush of lying in making...
...with no source of income since the U.S. two weeks ago dissolved the Iraqi army - the U.S. would have to badly botch its efforts to win Iraqi goodwill. But therein lies the rub: Although the U.S. is a long way off from alienating the majority of Iraqis to the extent that they'd consider taking up arms against the world's most powerful military, it has not, thus far, managed to endear the majority of Iraqis to the occupation authority, either. It may be a relatively safe bet, right now, that the U.S. will ultimately prevail in the new phase...
...lack of effective participation in world trade. But other factors include the historical defeat and humiliation of Muslims, their feeling of impotence vis-a-vis the West, the arrogant concept of the superiority of Islam and Muslim youths' lack of hope. The war on terrorism is to a large extent a war of ideas with a heavy religious imprint. Ideas and minds must be changed on all sides. CHARLES B. SHORTER Kampala, Uganda...
President Bush twice saluted Palestinian prime minister Mahmoud Abbas's "strong leadership" earlier this week, but by Friday there were reasons to doubt the extent of his following among Palestinians. First, Palestinian Authority president Yasser Arafat ripped into Wednesday's meeting at Aqaba, saying Abbas had gotten precious little by way of concrete undertakings from Ariel Sharon. Then on Friday the militant Islamist group Hamas announced that it would hold no further talks with Abbas on a proposed cease-fire, accusing him of having sold out the Palestinian cause by agreeing at Aqaba to end the intifadah without securing Palestinian...
...attacks was not enough. Implementing the "roadmap" would require that groups such as Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Fatah's own Al-Aqsa Martyr's Brigade be dissolved, disarmed and their leaders detained. While Hamas may have been open to discussing some form of temporary truce, at least to the extent that this was necessary to avoid being blamed on the Palestinian street and in the wider Arab world for the failure of a peace plan, it can plainly see that the success of the "roadmap" would equal its own destruction. Hamas's decision to break off talks, then, is hardly...