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...European allies have been fulminating with advice about how we should handle the dangerous business of housing these men. Our allies extravagantly insist that every semicolon of the Geneva Convention, a treaty among sovereign countries designed to protect honorable soldiers, also belongs to the self-appointed terrorists and saboteurs who attack guards and deliberately kill civilians. Rumsfeld considers the detainees to be "unlawful combatants." Late last week Colin Powell reportedly joined the debate, asking President Bush to assume the detainees to be lawful POWs unless a military board finds otherwise...
...simplest measure of statehood, after all, is a monopoly of force in a sovereign territory. And two days of fierce fighting in the southeastern town of Gardez have shown the limits of Kabul's authority. When the shooting stopped, Thursday, the warlord appointed governor by Karzai, Padsha Khan Zadran, had been repelled from the city by forces loyal to rival warlord Saifullah...
...course, races are intriguing whether they are run by horses, politicians or clergy, and the Archbishop of Canterbury is after all the nation's spiritual leader, the presider over great state celebrations. He ranks second to the royal family in leaving such occasions - he succeeds the sovereign, but precedes the Prime Minister. Moreover, he not only heads the Church of England, but also leads the worldwide Anglican Communion of some 70 million Anglicans and Episcopalians in 164 countries...
...time for out-of-the-box thinking on the Middle East. To be viable entities, the Palestinian territories need to benefit from the established Israeli economic base; for safety and continued success, Israel needs the support of the hearts, minds and hands of the Palestinians. My solution: two sovereign states, Israel and Palestine, united in a federation, with the disputed area of Jerusalem designated a common federal district. The Israeli and Palestinian state governments would have their capitals in nondisputed areas. Being a full-fledged member of this modern federation would serve to elevate the Palestinians from the despair...
...Washington need lose a minute's sleep over the land of tango. Argentina is hardly a stranger to economic queer streets; its economy is only the size of Ohio's. Besides (so we are told), Wall Street has long since "discounted" the prospect of a default on Argentina's sovereign debt, so there's no need to worry. On the other hand, in 1997 the collapse of the Thai baht (Thailand's economy is about as big as Tennessee's) sparked a financial crisis throughout Asia that, without decisive policy interventions from Washington, would have threatened the global economy...