Word: lawlessness
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...condemned the U.S. invasion. Beyond that, many local leaders believe that the war has fueled terrorism in the region, as in the recent triple suicide bombing in Amman, Jordan. "You have ended up with a great big area--from the Jordanian border to the outskirts of Baghdad--being a lawless and terror-infested territory," says Ali Shukri, a former adviser to Jordan's King Hussein...
Controversial British lawyer Philippe Sands criticized the Bush administration’s attitudes on international law and warned officials that they could be liable before international courts, at a Law School forum last night. Sands is in the midst of a tour to promote his recent book, Lawless World, which describes the United States’ historical contributions to, and recent attacks against, international law and covenants. The Atlantic Charter of 1941, signed by President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, opened a “golden age” of international law, Sands said last night...
...friends such as South Korea are not afraid to stick up for their own interests, and in which China is a new rival to the U.S. for local affections, sorting out unfinished business with Japan has become an American priority. On Oct. 26, U.S. Deputy Undersecretary of Defense Richard Lawless announced in Tokyo that the two countries had resolved a nine-year standoff over plans to relocate the Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station in the town of Ginowan, Okinawa, to a less populated part of the island chain. The next day, the U.S. Navy announced that Japan had dropped...
...Iraq can only use their weapons in strictly defined circumstances, they have themselves had to be defended at various times by British, Dutch and Australian troops.) At a conference in Tokyo sponsored by the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington think tank, just a day before the Futenma agreement, Lawless stunned his audience by blasting the inertia, complacency and inadequacy of Japan's armed forces. Rather than offering the usual congratulations for support in Iraq and the Indian Ocean, Lawless called Japan's military initiatives over the years "quite modest." Japan's defense planning, Lawless said, was "episodic rather than systemic...
...peace and stability. The country is nowhere near as violent as it was before; it has a new constitution that enables the establishment of civil institutions like an independent judiciary; and foreign investment is trickling in. Outside the capital Kabul, however, much of the hinterland remains poor and lawless, often controlled by rival warlords and drug barons who do not answer to the central authorities. The presidential election that Hamid Karzai won last year should have given the divided country a unifying leader. But Karzai has been hamstrung by the lack of a parliament or local government bodies, and many...