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With time, however, the U.S. hopes that it can end the tacit assistance that some nations offer terrorists, then eradicate the terror cells themselves. Last week Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz spoke of "removing the sanctuaries, removing the support systems" and ending state support for terrorism. Wolfowitz is one of those who have advocated toppling Saddam Hussein in a process of "regime change" in Iraq. The case would be hugely advanced if it could be shown that Saddam was involved in last week's incidents. Was he? Bob Graham, chairman of the Senate intelligence committee, says there is "some...
...ANGRY NEIGHBORS Beijing and Seoul are furious with the nationalistic tone of Koizumi's administration, his visit to the Shinto shrine that honors Japan's war dead and his tacit approval of a revisionist textbook that waters down wartime aggression Koizumi's plan: Use personal charm in diplomatic tete-a-tetes with Asian counterparts Outlook: POOR. Korea's Kim Dae Jung and China's Jiang Zemin have snubbed his overtures. They want concessions before they'll talk. Giving in would make Koizumi look bad at home...
...admire the stealthy 21st century raid Mexico launched last week: the way the invaders all wore business suits, the way they struck one by one at inland targets like Detroit, Chicago and Milwaukee, the fact that they came not to conquer but to lobby--and all with the tacit encouragement of the American President. As the Mexican Foreign Minister and three of his country's leading Senators traveled the U.S. recruiting allies, it fell to Mexican President Vicente Fox to disclose what he and George W. Bush have been discussing in secret for months: the most sweeping change...
...glimpse at the images and then returns to the desolate wine and cheese bar. Jaggedly reaching for the white wine bottle, she avoids the eyes of everyone else in the room. Perhaps everyone else is oblivious, but it seems as if they have agreed to a reciprocal avoidance, a tacit contract to not acknowledge the presence of each other...
...going to be saying it's preferable for China to build more nuclear missiles to maintain their nuclear deterrent. We have no nuclear arms control agreement with them currently, but Washington doesn't treat China as a rogue state either. So there'll be some sort of tacit acknowledgement of their right to a nuclear deterrent. We may not like that, but there'll still be an effort to achieve some sort of understanding over...