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...only countries to have publicly endorsed the Administration's view that Saddam's weapons of mass destruction present an imminent danger requiring immediate, preemptive action. And despite the efforts of the Administration to court the support of skeptical U.S. Senators and Congressmen over the past two weeks, many insist they have been told nothing new in behind-closed-doors briefings and remain unconvinced of the imminent danger. NATO members and Arab allies have been openly skeptical of the case for going to war; Germany's Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has made rejection of any U.S. "adventure" in Iraq a central plank...
...inspection in order to avoid war, he potentially buys himself time and muddies the waters of legitimacy even if he plans to resume his cat-and-mouse game with inspectors. This is precisely the scenario Defense Secretary Rumsfeld and Vice President Cheney have been determined to avoid. Yet to insist, as they have done, that inspections won't remove the need to oust Saddam carries the risk of undermining the sincerity of Bush's appeal to the UN to enforce its own rules - after all, Washington won't be able to sustain the argument that Saddam was given a last...
...From the standpoint of Washington's hard-liners - those who insist that you can't get rid of the threat from Saddam's weapons of mass destruction without getting rid of Saddam - just going to the U.N. has risks. Diplomatic negotiations, with their shuffled compromises and ambiguous texts, are not the favorite terrain of the moral-clarity crowd, who need no fresh justification to get rid of Saddam. A White House aide says sharply, "We haven't said anything about a new [Security Council] resolution." But in practice, both American and foreign diplomats are working on the assumption that...
...make amends and “do the right thing.” A vote to reconsider inviting ROTC back onto campus is in order. What is Harvard waiting for? I call upon all members of the Harvard community to consider this issue. In my opinion, Harvard can still insist that the military amend its current policy towards homosexuals. However, it is high time Harvard finally shows some overt respect to the United States armed forces and welcome ROTC back onto campus. The two issues need not be mutually exclusive in a time...
...calling for new inspections is also, as the hawks insist, potentially a trap that gives Baghdad plenty of room for maneuver. Although Iraq has consistently rejected the demand for unconditional return of the inspectors, Saddam's regime now says it's ready to work with the U.N. over the arms inspection issue. While few believe Saddam intends suddenly to be a good global citizen, his own strategic calculations dictate that submitting to inspection is in his best interests. The Arab League governments currently meeting in Cairo are doing their utmost to prevent a U.S. attack that most believe will jeopardize...