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Re "Clash Of The Administration Titans," your story on the foreign-policy feud between Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Secretary of State Colin Powell over how to rebuild a post-Saddam Iraq [THE RECONSTRUCTION, April 14]: What are the frothing-at-the-mouth military hawks going to say next...
You characterized those who oppose U.N. involvement in postwar Iraq as believing "If you weren't with us on the takeoff, you don't deserve to be there for the landing." I thought we were trying to make the world a better place. It is the world community that will...
As America moves forward in the war on terror, thoughtful criticism is of course healthy. But the notion that President Bush wants to build “an empire at gunpoint” is fundamentally misguided. In Iraq, U.S. occupying forces will only stay temporarily, until law and order is...
So Bush is, for the moment, triumphant. His triumphs may turn out to be historic, but they will require a great deal of work. The openings to North Korea and Iran will require subtle, patient diplomacy, which has not been this Administration's strength. The reconstruction of Iraq will require...
The Iraqis have proved resistant to "reconstruction" efforts in the past. Three years after the British tried to tame Mesopotamia, the Times of London complained about the futility of the project and--Karl Rove, take note--about its impact on domestic British politics: "While [the government] has spent nearly ?...