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...V.U.B.), is happy that the taboo has been broken, but he says, "It's still too little, too late." Immigration has so far staved off population shrinkage in countries like Germany, where death rates already exceed birth rates, but even at numbers far beyond current levels it will have scant influence on the long-term balance among generations. After all, immigrants get old, too (and their birth rates decline within a generation of moving to Europe). Lest-haeghe warns that there's no quick fix. "We need to get back to two children per family," he says. "But even...
...Iraq [Oct. 25], I find it disturbing when the media depict these killers as "insurgents" or "resistance fighters." A fuss is made over every foreign civilian casualty in the green zone, the headquarters of the U.S. administration in Baghdad, while the Iraqi civilian casualties of terrorist acts get scant coverage. And how is the U.S. policy of winning the hearts and minds of Iraqis going to work in a terrorist haven like Fallujah, where many of the citizens are collaborating with the extremists? Any peaceful means of conflict settlement by Americans is viewed by those brutes as weakness and emboldens...
...election, the bloody mess in Iraq remains George W. Bush's No. 1 responsibility and the one most likely to define his presidential legacy. The British experience occupying the country in the 1920s offers unhappy instruction. That expedition's commander thought he went as a liberator and arrived with scant ground troops. The local leaders the British picked to rule were weak and derided as puppets. Iraqis rebelled with attacks that stunned the occupiers in their ferocity. Ultimately, the occupiers had to use brute military power to crush the insurgency, hoping that stories of men, women and children being killed...
...people will try. Scant weeks after Housewives' launch, NBC bought a seven-year-old script for a series about five families living on a suburban cul-de-sac. Who's got the golden...
...sacrifice in Iraq must be toward this end—the promise of Iraqi democracy—and so far there has been scant evidence that Iraq is moving in that direction. Equally disturbing, neither presidential candidate has offered a realistic plan for succeeding in Iraq. Although we side with Sen. Kerry and believe he ultimately has the best chance of quelling the insurgency and rebuilding Iraq, neither he nor President Bush has offered substantive ideas for bringing about a tenable peace. Defeating insurgents, training Iraqi soldiers and civil servants, and the myriad other sound bites offered by the candidates...