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...Administration that treads on this turf needs to make - and remake - its case. There is nothing wrong with trying to make the world a better place, ameliorate suffering or overthrow tyranny. But if you are going to spend American blood and treasure to do all that in places that do not appear to pose a direct threat to the U.S., you had better be prepared to explain what you are doing and why. Successive Administrations during the Vietnam War were unable to do that. So, for the most part, were Albright and Clinton. Unless George W. Bush is extremely lucky...
Community activists, seeing a ruling they thought they could overthrow, quickly pounced on the decision, arguing that Harvard was using its non-profit status to sidestep environmental regulations for a for-profit project. But the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals upheld the exemption in December...
...treating an old man, the doctor must quickly don a burqa and claim that she is the wife of her patient's son. We know that a happy ending in reality?indeed, if it is an ending and if it is happy?came only years later, with the overthrow of the Taliban. But the two Afghan films give a lesson that other directors, at Cannes and beyond, could learn from: that life, as it is endured on the vast margins of civilized society, is the most exciting and soul-wrenching form of melodrama. Its dilemmas are not solved by bullets...
...Rumsfeld would have a tough time convincing even the most loyal of U.S. allies to go to war with Iran - and not only because almost two months after Saddam's overthrow, no evidence has yet emerged to conclusively validate the WMD and al-Qaeda charges against Iraq. Even the Bush administration's most loyal ally, Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair, may be inclined to take a more nuanced view than Rumsfeld. Britain does, after all, maintain diplomatic ties with Tehran and has engaged actively with Iran in the hope of promoting the country's reform movement...
...Washington hawks, however, have little patience for an Iranian reform process that has produced few palpable achievements, and may already have hit a wall. They believe mounting popular anger makes Iran ripe for revolution, and a concerted U.S. push for the overthrow of the mullahs could ignite an uprising. The pro-dialogue camp says that vision is farfetched and dangerous, and that concerns over al-Qaeda and nuclear weapons must be addressed in the course of engagement with Tehran that rewards progress towards reform and punishes bad behavior...