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...Prime Minister Tony Blair plan to devote most of their time together in London this week to discussing Iraq, and there's certainly plenty to talk about. Despite - or, perhaps, because of - last weekend's agreement between the Iraqi Governing Council and the Coalition Provisional Authority to transfer sovereign political control to an Iraqi transitional government on July 1, 2004, the coalition's immediate plans in Iraq are far from clear. One set of challenges concerns the inevitable intra-Iraqi political conflicts that will be sharpened by the process of choosing the provisional government, but even more vexing...
...political plan is a major roll of the dice for Washington. The harsh reality of the escalating insurgency has forced the Bush administration to abandon its program for direct U.S. supervision of a slow and thorough transition to Iraqi democracy. Instead, sovereign authority and control of the transition will be placed in the hands of a government chosen by Iraqis - even if the "electorate" is confined to elites vetted by Iraqis previously chosen by the U.S. to run various local, provincial and national councils...
According to Halevi, even Yousef told him he thinks that the resolution of the conflict will be a one-state solution, with Jews, Christians and Muslims living together in an Arab state—rather than a solution in which Israel is recognized as a sovereign state...
...fighting intensifies, the focus of Bremer's two-day huddle at the White House has been on how to establish a sovereign political authority - even a provisional one, like President Hamid Karzai's government in Afghanistan. The Bush administration remains plagued by internal division over how to proceed in Iraq, with the result being contending answers that range from handing over sovereign authority to the IGC to nixing the Council in favor of an interim government. Bremer's comments before leaving Washington that the next move is up to the IGC suggest he is taking back some form of challenge...
...none too interested in symbolizing. Arbus knew how photographers cajole their subjects and occasionally deceive them. But even "concerned" photographers typically make us feel sorry for their suffering subjects, although our pity may be the last thing the subjects ever wanted. No one will ever feel sorry for the sovereign specimen who looms toward us in Mexican dwarf in his hotel room in N.Y.C., Arbus' 1970 portrait of a very short man who is stripped to the waist and sitting on a bed but still managing an erotic swagger...