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Relative caution on Iran, relative hawkishness on Hizballah and Syria. Within the terms of the Administration's policy objectives, that sort of pecking order makes sense. But in the Middle East--and among Washington's closest allies--such a to-do list would have a gaping hole. The U.S. cannot meet its objective of building a safer world without determinedly addressing the Israeli-Palestinian dispute. The suffering of Palestinians, beamed into televisions in homes all over the Middle East, is a recruiting sergeant for militant groups. "We are demanding that serious results be made on the Israel front, not just...
...Country Club, golforient.com/phuket/blue.htm, is a half-hour dogleg from Bangkok. Out of bounds specialists should try the 557-yard par 5 number 10 at the Phuket Country Club, phuketcountryclub.com, where an errant 240-yard slice over water might reach the green in one. North of Phuket, the final hole at the Thai Muang Beach Golf Course has something of a water hazard?the Andaman...
...only 7 a.m., but sweat is already trickling down my face as I tee off on the first hole of one of Asia's toughest courses at the Laem Chabang International Country Club, laemchabanggolf.com, two hours east of Bangkok. It's not because of the heat, but the pressure: a 200-yard tunnel of bushes leaves no room for a hook or a slice; farther on, the gaping mouths of four hungry sand traps guard a tiny, fast green. And I've been grouped with three aces who fly in every year from Japan to be humbled by this obstacle...
...zenning over my putt when Sawat surprises me by picking up the ball. She lines up the putt then draws an imaginary arc where I'm supposed to roll it. "Left to right," she says, pulling the flag to pinpoint the target five feet left of the hole. "Downhill putt...
...leave Bangkok for some choice courses. You can stay downtown, and play downtown, if you're invited by a member of the Bangkok Sports Club?a 3-iron from the Rajadamri skytrain station between Siam Square shopping centers and Silom office towers. Some golfers never leave the airport area. Hole one of the Kantarat, the Thai air-force course, stretches between runways. It used to be open to anyone, but since the November 2002 attempted rocket attack on a plane in Kenya, the runway links have been closed to nonmembers to keep terrorists from pulling a surface-to-air missile...