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...month to the member states who had most strongly opposed the war - Russia, Germany, China and France - that history could not be reversed by the power of Security Council veto. And trying once again to block the U.S. at the Security Council would further damage dangerously frayed transatlantic relations, render the UN irrelevant to a world managed by U.S. power, and prolong the humanitarian crisis facing the Iraqi people. Instead, they negotiated for a few weeks to salvage what they could by way of recognition of their commercial interests in Iraq and also of a visible, although mostly decorative, role...
Their repeated appeals to this premise render their arguments entirely question-begging. For example, they state that the Fourth Amendment’s ban against “unreasonable” searches and seizures is “unequivocal”—yet the Framers’ textual appeal to “reasonableness” as the standard to judge such intrusions evinces a committment to pragmatic analysis that belies Debartolo and Freinberg’s dogmatism...
...meantime, clinicians are working feverishly to fine-tune existing antiviral drugs and treatments in order to render SARS less deadly. At present, about one in every 20 SARS victims dies, usually due to swelling in the lungs, a result of the body's own immune-system response. In Hong Kong, doctors claim they are successfully combating the disease using the antiviral drug ribavirin to inhibit the virus combined with corticosteroids to check an overstimulated immune response. Ribavirin works by interfering with intracellular viral replication, slowing the infection's spread within the body. The problem, as microbiologist Professor John...
...because Bush chose to win Security Council approval instead of working diplomatic backchannels, the U.N. has been rendered useless once again. It failed to find much of Saddam’s chemical arsenal, and, as the war draws on, it continues to fail to enforce its own resolutions. Bush should not have given the Security Council the chance to render itself so useless. When political advisers tell future presidents about the lessons of the run-up to the second war with Iraq, it will be that Bush was too much of a loud dove, and not enough of a secretive...
...possibility that the U.S. air strikes may have picked off Saddam initially raised hopes that a war so widely dreaded would come to a mercifully short end. Even some White House officials wondered aloud whether the opening-night salvo and the rapid advance of American ground forces might render the "shock and awe" of the Pentagon's planned assault unnecessary. But the battlefield picture remained too muddled for allied commanders to hold their fire for long...