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...Other senior members of Congress, who've seen presidential doctrines come and go, agree. The Middle East complicates Bush's doctrine "a lot," says Sen. Joseph Biden, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. "It complicates significantly the actions we take or contemplate taking, particularly with regard to Iraq. The last thing we need is Saddam Hussein concluding that if we were to move on him he will direct the few Scud missiles he has with biological and chemical weapons at Israel and start a general Middle East...
...security--these people are hardly candidates for suicide terrorism--but for political correctness. We are engaged in a daily and ostentatious rehearsal of the officially sanctioned proposition that suicide terrorists come from anywhere, without regard to gender, ethnicity, age or religious affiliation...
...Pashtun provinces of southeastern Afghanistan remain strongholds of Taliban support, and are gripped by ongoing power struggles between rival warlords. They regard with suspicion the interim government of Hamid Karzai, which is dominated by the ethnic Tajiks of the Northern Alliance. And that has prompted the Taliban and al-Qaeda to exploit Pashtun resentment in an effort to create a favorable climate for a new guerrilla war against the U.S. and its allies. Reports from the area cite mass distribution of pro-bin Laden pamphlets in the region, urging Afghans to fight the government in Kabul and its U.S. backers...
...Abdullah's reforms are still blocked by Islamic opposition. His efforts to bring the kingdom into the World Trade Organization, for example, could help create jobs, and unemployment is 15%. But the obstacles to membership include the country's lack of appropriate commercial and insurance laws. Islamic traditionalists regard such laws as an affront to Shari'a, the rules of life that, according to Muslim tradition, were handed down...
...them in the effort to build a new society based on love and self-sacrifice rather than the self-indulgence that characterized Cuban society before 1959 and American society today. He has carried out this social revolution with little tolerance for dissent, but at the same time with a regard for human life and mercy that is not only unparalleled in the old Soviet bloc but is also rare by the standards of most Latin American countries...