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...groups are trying to carry on by using local personnel. (The Red Cross has 600 in Iraq.) But it's becoming harder to function effectively. Geoffrey Keele, spokesman for UNICEF's mission to Iraq, says, "We're still implementing emergency programs, but we've lost our ability to expand them." In Afghanistan, says a senior U.N. staff member, "We are asking ourselves if we are approaching a threshold beyond which it may be impossible to operate...
Saddam Hussein presented a threat to the stability of the Middle East. The West needs oil to function. Wasn't it better to invade while we could outgun the Iraqis than to wait and suffer more casualties later on? At least the world is rid of a despot. And who knows how many innocent Iraqi lives have been saved? I hold no brief for Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair, but I support them in this. The daily death toll of allied troops is heartbreaking, but it will be worth it in the end. Mick Timson Caistor, England...
Then all hell broke loose. Just as we were adjusting to the fact that our country could function even if the president didn’t completely know what he was doing, a team of Saudis with box cutters torpedoed our innocence. Right then, like our cell phones, our culture stopped working for a minute. What sense could the old Dave Matthews make when Dave Letterman was weeping on air? For one long winter, no one knew what the hell to do, except to vow that we would never be the same...
...know the other people so well as I get to know their playlists. Sometimes I think it is interesting when, for instance, the guy down the hall has a lot of country and I never would have suspected . . . [but] the music that one has is at once a function of what one likes and a function of what one has access to,” said Meghan Anne...
...TIME.com: It's interesting that both of his taboo issues also have an electoral function for Putin...