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...Bush position on Kyoto offers yet another reason for Europeans to question whether -after eight years of Clinton talking of multilateralism without necessarily moving it forward -Bush's America is abandoning even the pretext. "In Europe, we're seeing an attitude shift from complacency to some alarm," says Robert Kagan of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The alarmist catalog would begin with National Missile Defense, move to the worsening relationship with Russia, and take in the harder line on North Korea and Iraq, and finally the tepid support for the E.U.'s ambitions in foreign and security policy...
...north, a Soviet fighter downed a Korean airliner that strayed into Soviet airspace, killing all 269 aboard. And Saturday's mid-air collision occurred just outside the Gulf of Tonkin, where in 1964 President Johnson used a skirmish involving the USS Maddox and USS Turner Joy as a pretext for launching air strikes against North Vietnam, beginning what came to be known as the Vietnam...
...still need to be packaged as something a little more noble and transcendent - the last President Bush wasn?t so foolhardy as to ask Americans to send their sons and daughters to die on foreign soil in order to keep the nation?s gas pumps turning over. No, the pretext had to be more gallant. Enter the "Butcher of Baghdad" - whereas the U.S. had been happy to supply him with weapons and intelligence for his war against Iran in the 1980s, Saddam's invasion of Kuwait prompted President Bush to suddenly recognize him for the thug he'd always been...
...common consensus among most of the media in this country seems to be that Palestinians, under the orders of Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat, used Ariel Sharon's visit to the al-Aqsa mosque as a pretext to launch a violent and bloody campaign against Israel. The public is unaware of the context of 50 years of tensions in which this visit must be seen...
Kavakci said she believes her exclusion from government through a ban on headscarves was merely a pretext employed by the regime...