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Efforts to get tough on terrorism are complicated by the government's desire to keep its distance from the military and security services, which were notoriously abusive under longtime dictator Suharto. A Western diplomat in Jakarta says if Megawati were to hand law-enforcement authorities too much power, "moderates of...
When Wellstone arrived in 1991, he was an ideological troublemaker. He stepped on a lot of toes and got very little done during his first year. Then he realized he needed to play by the rules, befriend potential allies on both sides of the aisle, and learn to compromise. But...
So which is it? Is the CIA politicizing the intelligence on Iraq to help the hard-liners persuade people that war is in the national interest? Or is Tenet, a former Senate staff member with keen survival instincts, working to keep the moderates happy too? Tenet denies both charges. "It...
Taking the Iraq issue back to the UN has always been, from the Bush Administration's point of view, a compromise. It bridged the positions of the hawkish elements reluctant to allow diplomacy or renewed arms inspections to slow the momentum towards invasion, and moderates who warned that the only...
Moderates who support a tougher line against Iraq but oppose a pre-emptive U.S. war are pushing a compromise plan: a new system of "coercive" inspections, under which the U.N. Security Council would call for weapons monitors to return to Iraq backed by a U.S.-led military force that could...