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Butt says his goal is nothing less than to restore the rule of "central [Islamic] authority'' over as much of the world as possible, as in the time of the Prophet Muhammad and his successors. There is no way to interpret the Koran other than literally, Butt insists, and therefore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Struggle For The Soul Of Islam | 9/13/2004 | See Source »

The war has become a case study in weighing the value of a show of strength, and Fallujah is the fulcrum. The city exploded in March, when a mob killed four U.S. private security contractors and played with their charred bodies like beach balls. The President reacted as expected. This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside The Mind Of George W. Bush | 9/6/2004 | See Source »

Having confronted the limits of military power, Bush had little choice but to embrace the U.N. as the midwife of Iraqi independence. In November he hauled L. Paul Bremer, the U.S. proconsul, back to Washington for consultations and set a timetable to restore sovereignty to Iraq, having concluded that the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside The Mind Of George W. Bush | 9/6/2004 | See Source »

But it has been an enraging surprise for liberals who thought that, apart from all his moderate mood music four years ago, Bush would have no choice after a virtual tie election and with an evenly divided Congress but to govern from the center. In every campaign promise he has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside The Mind Of George W. Bush | 9/6/2004 | See Source »

But Bush wasn't fighting just the Democrats. At times he was fighting the entire Congress. Representative democracy is a messy business, and a CEO White House doesn't like a legislature of second-guessers and time wasters. Bush and Cheney shared a view that they had a mission to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside The Mind Of George W. Bush | 9/6/2004 | See Source »

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