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...SAID RECENTLY, "FORGOTTEN" MEXICO AMID ITS OBSESSION WITH TERRORISM...
...Saddam was almost a forgotten enemy by the time he was caught. The U.S. delay in restoring Iraq's infrastructure and rule of law has resulted in a wave of sporadic terrorist attacks and created a new enemy that may be even more difficult to subdue than Saddam. Until normality returns to their country, there will be no victory for the people of Iraq. Li Lian Lau Singapore...
...hearing aid discreetly tucked in each ear, but he is otherwise undiminished. His speaking voice is patrician in tone (he was once, briefly, a tutor at Eton), and he quotes fluently from the annals of military historythe British in Suez, the CIA in Iran, the Abkhazian War, obscure, half-forgotten intelligence scandalsbut he is also an almost unnervingly gifted mimic. Over the course of an afternoon, he does, among others, the author James Jones, a snooty French photographer, Truman Capote and Mel Brooks' 2,000-year...
With a political statement this pungent, Le Carre knows he runs the risk of alienating his sizable American following, even of coming off as a crank--an aging, forgotten ex-spook railing at the world from his Cornish crag. He also knows that he is leaving behind the sense of moral ambiguity that permeated his most acclaimed novels, trading those many delicate, literary shades of gray for a palette of clear-cut black and white. He has taken a stand. "I have a kind of middle-class constituency of fans who don't want me shaking the bars," he says...
...same time, Fox has had to watch his stock plummet in Washington, where he was once feted as Bush's cowboy-boot-wearing friend. But after Sept. 11, Bush turned his back on Fox's immigration- reform ideas as a threat to U.S. border security. Mexico was all but forgotten in the U.S. - until late 2002, when the country opposed Bush's Iraq war plan in the United Nations Security Council. Mexicans, whose foreign-policy attitudes are staunchly noninterventionist, applauded Fox - but Bush took it as a betrayal and virtually blacklisted the Mexican leader. But Bush faces a re-election...