Word: shying
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...Perhaps we are looking in the wrong direction for the antidote to violence in the Sunni-dominated areas of Iraq. When Saddam Hussein was in power, he suppressed most resistance through sheer force and an aggressive, overwhelming response to any uprising. I'm sure that the Kurds and the Shi'ite majority, with the support of the U.S., could deal with the Fallujah insurgents. Sometimes the antidote is a bitter pill to swallow. David Hicks Duluth, Georgia, U.S. God and Science while I applaud Nobel-prizewinning physicist Eric Cornell's evenhanded call for moderation in the intelligent-design debate...
Saddam Hussein's seven co-defendants may be wondering how long he'll keep hogging the microphone. Like their deposed leader, each is accused of playing a role in the 1982 massacre of 148 Shi'ites after an assassination attempt against the President in the northern Iraqi town of Dujail. Prosecutors allege local Baath Party official Mohammed Azawi Ali helped arrest suspected assassins' relatives, regardless...
...senior Baath Party official, Abdullah Kazim Ruwayyid is believed responsible for the arrests of as many as 687 Shi'ites in Dujail...
...with the U.S. to isolate the jihadis. "If the Americans evidenced good intent and a timetable for withdrawal we feel is genuine, we will stand up against al-Zarqawi," says Abdul Salam al-Qubaisi, spokesman for the Association of Muslim Scholars. "We already stood up against him on the Shi'ite issue, and if he doesn't follow us, it will be a bad path for him." Baathist insurgent leader Abu Yousif, who has met with U.S. intelligence officers, says, "The insurgency is looking for a political outlet--once we have that, we could control al-Qaeda...
That's still a long way off. The willingness of moderate Sunnis to pursue a political solution could easily crumble if the next government in Baghdad fails to improve conditions in Sunni areas and clamp down on sectarian excesses by Shi'ite militias. And even if the U.S. can lure some guerrillas to the negotiating table, it still faces a seemingly inescapable quandary: so long as U.S. troops are involved in combat in Iraq, there's every reason to believe the insurgency will be able to recruit sufficient numbers of motivated new fighters to do battle with them. Rhode Island...