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...against Iraq, and geopolitical oblivion. Defense Secretary Rumsfeld on Wednesday told Congress that "no terrorist state poses a greater and more immediate threat to the security of our people and the stability of the world than the regime of Saddam Hussein." Such language gives the administration little room for retreat from the warpath...
...unilateral approach with the useful propaganda addition of Tony Blair. I stress Tony Blair as opposed to the United Kingdom, because, currently, he does not have either his party or his people on board. Europeans have not been encouraged by the present American administration’s retreat from the Kyoto agreement, from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, and from open trade. Indeed, the United States is seen as isolationist as well as unilateralist...
...Battalion of the 87th Infantry Regiment, "we would have landed someplace else." The U.S. troops didn't have the men or firepower to scale the rocks and wipe out the enemy fighters. But Perez and the others in command remembered the 1993 Somali fire fight--a panicky retreat in which 18 Americans were killed--and they decided to dig in. "We didn't run from the fight," says Grippe. "It wasn't a Mogadishu...
...festivities could begin, the doors to the ballroom burst open and in rushed 70 angry members of the Daewoo salesmen's union. The militants, wearing red bandannas around their heads, overpowered security guards and began singing protest songs. Smith, guards by his side, was forced to beat an inglorious retreat through a trap door hidden in the ballroom floor behind the stage. The deal was signed unceremoniously later that day in a small room in a nearby government bank building...
...only just begun, and the governors will not find the going easy. Japan's construction boondoggles come rigged with booby traps for those who try to dismantle them. Former Governor Yukio Aoshima of Tokyo, who campaigned in the mid-1990s against a ruinous bay project, was forced to retreat when he found that cancellation would incur hundreds of millions of dollars in penalties...