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...human" intelligence--agents in place, stronger links with foreign intelligence services, many more agents trained in foreign languages. Our new Grand Strategy will also need to rethink how we use international agencies to buttress our goals. We have been skeptical about their utility, from the Kyoto global-warming protocol to the United Nations, but they also deserve improvement, fresh resources, better personnel and enhanced purpose. Above all, a shell-shocked America will need to understand that a Grand Strategy to preserve this richly varied democracy is not just a wartime matter but something that has to be pursued in peacetime...
...organization rescinded its offer of a weapons handover this past August, contending that it was negotiating with General John de Chastelain’s Independent International Commission on Decommissioning. Unionists were understandably upset over the IRA’s brazen disregard of the Good Friday Agreement’s protocol. Trimble argued that while the UUP had “supported an inclusive system” and “given republicans the opportunity to participate…it was on the basis that they carry out their obligations under the Agreement. They haven’t done that...
...Protocol also specifies that handcuffs should not be removed “except for the purpose of fingerprinting, writing on forms as may be required or when absolutely necessary...
Several panelists criticized the maverick reputation the United States has developed under the Bush administration, which did not sign the Kyoto Protocol and did not participate in the Durban conference against racism...
...wake of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, much praise has been rightfully given to the dedicated public servants of New York City. Their resolve and courage has been typified by their leader, Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani. There is obviously no protocol for how to act after such a shocking and unexpected disaster. Yet, Giuliani has never looked lost or muddled, inept or overwhelmed. He has led by example—speaking in an eloquent but measured way during the day, lending his hands to the rescue operations downtown at night...