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...Colin Powell's doctrine of using overwhelming force. But the wars so far in the second Bush era have been fought and won with notably smaller invading armies, U.S. air power and special forces having been married to terrifyingly precise effect. Pentagon officials boast that they toppled Saddam Hussein with only 60% of the troops their war plans said they would need. "Overmatching power kind of is replacing overwhelming force," Rumsfeld told TIME...
...Baghdad bomb was the deadliest attack yet on foreign nationals since a U.S.-led force overthrew the regime of Saddam Hussein in the spring. In Washington, some officials tried to frame the episode as a turning point that would ultimately bolster their cause. The bombing, said a senior adviser to President George W. Bush, "will go down as the defining moment in the war on terror. It's the civilized world vs. those who know no bounds of decency. I'm not trying to put a gloss on a bad day, but this was a desperate reaction to the real...
...Letting up on Osama" reported that the focus on the hunt for Saddam Hussein has derailed the search for Osama bin Laden [NOTEBOOK, Aug. 11]. The increase in terrorist warnings and bombings are all reminders that bin Laden is still a real terrorist threat. It is a travesty that President Bush has diverted our attention for his own personal vendetta against Saddam. He has got the U.S. into an Iraqi quagmire that will take years to resolve. MARY JO VEVERKA Bethesda...
...Indeed, a depressing array of defense and foreign policy experts, including members of the uniformed military, have quietly concluded that postwar Iraq is the most vexing theater of operations the American military has faced since Vietnam. Even if Saddam Hussein is captured or killed, most experts (outside the Pentagon) believe that the restoration of order will be extremely difficult. Jihadist terror, organized criminality and internecine religious violence are likely to continue. For the immediate future, this is where George Bush's war on terrorism is being fought-and this is where his political future may be decided...
...perceptive commentary by Camp David veterans Robert Malley and Hussein Agha notes, none of the key participants - Ariel Sharon, Yasser Arafat and Mahmoud Abbas - saw the "roadmap" as a path to a solution; they saw it instead as a tactical challenge, brought on by diplomatic pressures, in their ongoing struggle. Each had his own goals: Arafat?s and Sharon?s were mirror opposites; Abbas?s were different from both, but his negligible political standing made him a marginal figure except in the wishful thinking of President Bush. Abbas adopted the ?roadmap? and then equivocated on implementing it; Sharon artfully avoided...