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...Iran to cooperate, but as the coalition sinks deeper into its Iraq quagmire, Iran is actually gaining leverage. Before the Iraq war, Blair's foreign-policy speeches were worth listening to: brilliant evocations of a world order enhanced through global coalitions mobilized to fight poverty and extend the rule of law - and willing to fight too if necessary. And he delivered results, over Bosnia, Kosovo, Sierra Leone and aid to Africa. But now he is stymied, because his war in Iraq has made his grand vision much less attainable, and strengthened the terrorists he abhors. He knows it, but will...
...room, Benedict has certainly booked himself into a doozy. In the racial memory of Western Europe, the Turks were the face of militant Islam, besieging Vienna in 1529 and 1683 and for centuries thereafter representing a kind of stock bogeyman. In 2002, after nearly a century of determinedly secularist rule, the country elected a moderate Islamist party. For many in the West, that makes Turkey simultaneously a symbol of hope (of moderation) and fear (of Islamism...
...Islam isn't likely either. Over the course of his career, Benedict has been averse to reciting multifaith platitudes, an aversion that has sharpened as he has focused on Islam. And that's what could make his coming encounter with the Muslim world, says David Gibson, author of The Rule of Benedict, either "a step toward religious harmony or toward holy...
...Disappeared" [Nov. 6], Aparisim Ghosh's gripping story about the stark reality of the underworld of kidnapping and torture in Iraq, made me angry. If people in the region had sympathy for their neighbors, such criminality would not be tolerated. Yet greed and willful neglect of morals and humanity rule the day. What a sad state of affairs...
Rather than focus on differences, the true dialogue between the Pope and Islam, and between secularized societies and Islamic ones, should emphasize our common, universal values: mutual respect of human rights, basic freedoms, rule of law and democracy. Though most of the media attention is directed at a marginal minority of radicals, millions of European Muslims are quietly proving every day that they can live perfectly well in secular societies and share a strong ethical pedestal with Jews, Christians and atheist humanists...