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...forced the Bush PR machine far from its comfort zone. Bush was still conjuring apparitions of an axis of evil as late as two weeks ago, as if all of America’s earthly enemies were merely limbs of a single monster. “Terror cells and outlaw regimes building weapons of mass destruction,” he explained in his case against Iraq, “are different faces of the same evil...
Enter the rhetoric of apocalypse. After 11 years of relative obscurity, Saddam is suddenly everywhere. Administration officials remind us over and over that Saddam is dangerous, evil and irrational, and that in dealings with his “outlaw regime,” as Bush calls it, we can predict nothing but that he will disobey. He is a “man who would use weapons of mass destruction at the drop of a hat, a man who would be willing to team up with terrorist organizations with weapons of mass destruction to threaten America and our allies...
...residents” to build an art museum in the Riverside neighborhood is stunningly naive. The University fought for three years for permission to build a museum on land it owns, which is currently occupied by Mahoney’s Garden Center. Cambridge responded by rezoning the land to outlaw any building taller than 24 feet...
...enforcement officials in India, the career of notorious outlaw Muniswamy Veerappan has played out with depressing monotony: India's most famous criminal kidnaps someone famous, ransom is paid, police swear they'll catch him next time and the cycle repeats. The state governments of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka in southern India claim to have spent $30 million over 15 years trying to capture him, but Veerappan?alleged to have had a hand in more than 130 murders?has remained untouchable, thanks to his jungle survival skills and police corruption. Now, after laying low for two years, he's tried...
...what the advocates of the administration's "preemption" doctrine, laid out in the President's graduation speech at West Point in June are advocating. The Cold War frameworks of containment and deterrence simply don't apply in an era of suicide terror, they argue, and America can't tolerate outlaw states developing weapons of mass destruction which, even if they don't use them themselves, may fall into the hands of terrorists. By this logic, Saddam Hussein must be taken out because of his active pursuit of nuclear weapons, and this must be done before he realizes his nuclear ambitions...