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...replaced his dictatorship with Iraq's new democracy--both real gains. Balanced against these gains are costs that go well beyond the direct human and financial ones. The occupation of Iraq has served as a tremendous stimulus for Arab and Muslim anti-Americanism and thus has made radical Islamist terrorism significantly worse than it would otherwise be. America's reputation around the world has taken a huge hit among ordinary people who are now more likely to associate our democracy with scenes of prisoner abuse than with the Statue of Liberty. We, of course, do not know what the future...
...Western European allies aren?t ready to discuss economic sanctions. But officials say some diplomats have begun talking quietly to one another and to other countries about where they might squeeze their commercial relations with Iran to force the Islamist regime to suspend its research on uranium enrichment and other techologies essential to constructing a bomb...
India is changing fast. A few years ago, a bomb attack on a holy Hindu site would have sparked riots. A few months ago, there would have seemed little doubt that Islamist groups linked to Pakistan carried it out. That neither is a certainty today reflects a nation, and a subcontinent, in profound change...
...Asked who might have carried out the attack, a senior Indian intelligence operative told TIME: "There aren't any definite pointers as yet. Given the target, it's probably an Islamist group, but there's nothing to connect them to Lashkar-e-Toibaa"-a reference to the Pakistani militant group fighting in Kashmir with links to the Pakistani establishment that has carried attacks across India and, until recently, was routinely fingered for any act of violence here. The officer added that the amateur nature of the devices suggested the bombers were poorly funded, and most likely had no support from...
...unanticipated reality. The only way the U.S.-Israeli effort to isolate a Hamas-led Palestinian government will succeed, right now, is if Hamas were to launch new terror strikes against Israel. And that's precisely the reason why Palestinian observers and Israeli security analysts expect the radical Islamist movement to maintain and extend the cease-fire it proclaimed a year...