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...dominated United Iraqi Alliance was declared the winner of the Jan. 30 election with 48% of the vote, gaining 140 of 275 seats in the new National Assembly. The Kurdish Alliance came second with 26%, followed by interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's party with 14%. Assessing Insecurity SOMALIA An explosion in Mogadishu left at least two people dead and six injured. The bomb went off as an African Union delegation was visiting the capital, where it had been assessing security ahead of a planned peacekeeping mission. Earlier in the week, there had been protests against the inclusion of troops...
...Krauthammer said, "the tsunami that destroyed thousands of lives from Sumatra to Somalia engendered an instant, near universal outpouring of concern, shared grief and charitable giving." In the case of the U.S., however, it was hardly instant. President George W. Bush took three days to personally acknowledge the disaster, and when he did, the amount he initially pledged?$15 million?was less than half what his supporters paid for his Inaugural festivities. Gail Miller Leslie, Michigan...
...restore your sense of wonder With billions of dollars already pledged to tsunami relief and celebrity benefits still pitching, donating may seem a tad less urgent these days. But the truth is, your money is still needed. Victims along the 3,000 miles of battered coastline from Sumatra to Somalia face years of rebuilding and the risk that disease could push the total number of lives lost far above the current estimate of 300,000. Still, it is more important than ever to be smart about how you give - to make sure your funds have the impact you want...
...That is not to pretend that the U.S. undertook Iraq for reasons of pure humanitarianism-as America undertook the rescue of other Muslim peoples (with varying success) in Somalia, Bosnia and Kosovo. We would never have invaded Iraq to depose Saddam without 9/11. After 9/11, we finally understood that helping build decent, representative, tolerant societies in the Middle East is ultimately the only way to prevent endless generations of young Arab men from finding fulfillment by crashing airplanes into buildings filled with infidels. Europe has a similar interest, having suffered, with the train bombings in Madrid, the kind of fanatic...
Krauthammer said, "The Tsunami that destroyed thousands of lives from Sumatra to Somalia engendered an instant, near universal outpouring of concern, shared grief and charitable giving." In the case of the U.S., however, it was hardly instant. President Bush took three days to personally acknowledge the disaster, and when he did, the amount he initially pledged--$15 million--was less than half what his supporters paid for his Inaugural festivities...