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...Washington's hard-liners--those who insist that you can't get rid of the threat from Saddam's weapons of mass destruction without getting rid of Saddam--just going to the U.N. has risks. Diplomatic negotiations, with their shuffled compromises and ambiguous texts, are not the favorite terrain of the moral-clarity crowd, who need no fresh justification to get rid of Saddam. A White House aide says sharply, "We haven't said anything about a new [Security Council] resolution." But in practice, both American and foreign diplomats are working on the assumption that now that debate has shifted...
...captains--must often make life-and-death decisions. These choices come fast and furious when you're fighting downtown: 90% of the targets are less than 50 yards away and seen for only seconds. Killing innocent civilians--or your own men--is a risk that goes with the terrain. A quarter of all explosive rounds turn into duds when they glance off walls and roofs. Helicopters can get tangled in overhead wires and crash. And America's most promising gizmos--robots that can crawl from building to building, miniature drones that can spy around corners, acoustic sensors capable of taking...
...Washington's hard-liners - those who insist that you can't get rid of the threat from Saddam's weapons of mass destruction without getting rid of Saddam - just going to the U.N. has risks. Diplomatic negotiations, with their shuffled compromises and ambiguous texts, are not the favorite terrain of the moral-clarity crowd, who need no fresh justification to get rid of Saddam. A White House aide says sharply, "We haven't said anything about a new [Security Council] resolution." But in practice, both American and foreign diplomats are working on the assumption that now that debate has shifted...
...good news for Raffarin is that even though France's social and labor terrain is heavily mined, his majority may be able to use its five-year term to put its reforms into place gradually?and ride out any waves of protest. With the leftist opposition in disarray after its electoral trouncing last June, Raffarin's stiffest challenge may come from the European Union: its requirement that budget deficits steadily come down will be tough during an economic slump, especially if Raffarin cuts taxes without shrinking the public sector. That's an economic equation studded with contradiction and conflict?qualities...
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