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...government in Baghdad with sufficient legitimacy to try him. And who truly knows if Saddam?s capture will lead to a reduction of hostilities? But on one thing, everyone seemed agreed. The images, the symbolism, the semiotics of Saddam?s capture were freighted with significance. The fetid hole in the ground, the mud hut, the litter and underwear, the prophet?s beard, the unfired pistol, the tongue depressor - all, somehow, were symbolic of ... well, of what...
...going to use symbols to justify political decisions, the difficult moment comes when they disappear. You can?t demonize a man who lives in a hole. As we get on with the unglamorous business of rebuilding Iraq, we may miss the utility of having a bogeyman in Baghdad. That is the point of C.P. Cavafy?s wonderful poem ?Waiting for the Barbarians.? A city is on edge, nervous about a threat that, its people slowly realize, will never come. ?What?s going to happen to us without barbarians?? asks the narrator. ?They were, those people, a kind of solution...
...Abizaid was virtually certain, and Rumsfeld rang off to telephone the President with the news. Rumsfeld's late-afternoon schedule was scrubbed, a hoped-for game of squash canceled. At a holiday party that night at his home, he gave no hint that he had the ace in the hole...
Maybe that's why we are startled by gratitude in the season of peace. To have pulled Saddam Hussein from his hole in the ground brings the possibility of pulling an entire country out of the dark. In an exhausting year when we've been witness to battles well beyond the battlefields--in the streets, in our homes, with our allies--to share good news felt like breaking a long fast, all the better since it came by surprise. And who delivered this gift, against all odds and risks? The same citizens who share the duty of living with...
...JONG IL The overconfident pose, the fawning lackeys, the weird eyewear that suggests that no one can speak directly to him--the North Korean leader is a poster boy for dictatorship. Will U.S. troops one day roust a scruffy Kim out of a spider hole? For now Washington is trying diplomacy to persuade him to dismantle his nukes. But this doesn't look like a man who's eager to welcome U.S. weapons inspectors...