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...Iraq to a tidy conclusion, it can't declare a truce over the fact that Bush took us there. For those who support him, the policy of pre-emptive engagement is the ultimate sign of his visionary grasp of what is needed to fight and win the war on terror. "Something had to be done," says Kathie Tenner's husband Bruce, who sounds a lot like Bush when he argues, "Over the long haul, if we can establish democracy in one nation over there, it's going to spread." Edward Wiederstein, a farmer in Audubon, Iowa, goes...
...suicide bombings of British targets in Istanbul trigger a Europe-wide crackdown? Eleven terror suspects were taken into custody in Western Europe last week - three in Italy, seven in Britain, and one in Germany - as a top Italian antiterror official told time that terror groups "are trying to move closer to [striking in] European territory." Security agencies were on high alert; Italian officials even discussed closing the Rome and Milan metros in the final 48 hours of Ramadan. But authorities say last week's arrests were the culmination of long investigations, not hasty responses to the Istanbul blasts. And some...
...going anywhere without a strong push from the very top." The general is right. This is something President Bush might think about--if he wants to leave a distinctive mark on the American military, inspire a new generation of citizen-soldiers and succeed in the larger war on terror...
...Terror strikes in the heart of Muslim cities such as Casablanca, Riyadh and Istanbul are also designed to provoke a confrontation between pro-U.S. regimes and indigenous Islamists, in the hope that these regimes could be weakened or toppled. The movement's primary strategic objective is to gain control of Muslim countries, eliminating Western influence and establishing Islamist regimes. But pursuing that goal via terrorist bombings in those countries carries the inherent risk of turning potentially sympathetic public opinion against the extremists, as it did in Egypt during the 1990s when terror attacks on tourists and civilians prompted many...
...targeting Turkey, the radicals may also be seeking to provoke a crisis that slows its ascension into the European Union. Those provoking the government in Ankara will know, all too well, the ferocity the Turkish authorities are prepared to bring to bear to stamp out terrorism on their soil - some 35,000 people died in Turkey's bitter war against Kurdish separatists that ended about four years ago. That war on terror saw human rights abuses that were cited by the European Union as reasons to delay Turkey's membership, and the al-Qaeda aligned insurgents may want to provoke...