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...American soldier, Time insulted non-Americans. The war in Iraq was illegal, fought by service members who would have done well to object to the U.S.'s invasion by refusing to fight, much like those who resisted the draft during the Vietnam War. Instead, the troops marched into a sovereign country like cowboys, under a false pretext, only to learn that the people they liberated wanted the occupiers out at any cost. Time should not demean the sensibilities of the rest of the world by glorifying the wrongs of a nation and its people. Jagdeep Parsram Bombay...
...hundred times in the next few days - that the capture of Saddam is not the end of anything. The allied coalition in Iraq continues to appear unsure whether it is supposed to be some addled modern version of liberal imperialism or a short bridge to an early resumption of sovereign rule by Iraqis. The members of the Governing Council - U.S.-appointed Iraqi leaders - seem unclear whether they are meant to fade from the scene next summer, as the latest Washington plan for a transition to Iraqi rule implied, or whether they will have a role to play in the longer...
...cost. Wen and his officials consistently tout the threat of war and suppress Taiwan’s international activities. The PRC’s tactics of intimidation and intentional manufacturing of fear are not only unwarranted, but could themselves constitute formal aggression of the regime against a democratic and sovereign nation...
...insurgency. They should know: They've been managing an uprising in the occupied West Bank and Gaza on and off for the past 16 years, and there are few signs of it ending any time soon. The U.S. is hoping to transform the situation next year by handing sovereign political control back to Iraqis. But if the logic of occupation and resistance continues to evolve in the Sunni Triangle and the problems of legitimacy continue to trouble the political transition process, Washington, may indeed find itself in a situation uncomfortably familiar to Israelis...
...Still, the hope in Washington is that U.S. troops in Iraq after July 1 next year will be there at the invitation of a sovereign Iraqi government, which is to be installed on that date. The administration sees the hand-over of political power from Ambassador Paul Bremer's Coalition Provisional Authority to an Iraqi provisional government as the essential step in getting Iraqis to assume a greater share of the security burden and defeating the insurgency...