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...commitment to democracy. In fact, as The American Prospect recently pointed out, our government’s financial support for brutal authoritarian regimes throughout Central Asia has increased substantially since September 11. It’s hard to imagine what could be more shortsighted than fighting terror by undermining democracy. At the same time, by showering affection on India’s autocratic neighbors, we cheapen our ties with India itself...
Whether or not a decent outcome is eventually achieved, Iraq won't present President Bush with the triumphant centerpiece of a successful reelection campaign. Still, Americans' fear of terror remains a rich seam of political support for the president - indeed, recent polls indicate that while more Americans believe his presumptive challenger, Senator John Kerry, would do a better job handling Iraq, Bush has a significant lead when the question is who would do a better job of fighting terrorism. Not surprisingly, then, the president's handlers have sought to make terrorism the prism through which the Bush presidency must...
...late Friday, Pentagon officials said the rules for interrogation in Iraq had been drastically tightened--while still insisting the now banned techniques had never been approved for use. The fallout from the scandal may have a far-reaching impact that goes to the core of how the U.S. fights terrorism. Human rights groups have predicted that the Administration might come to rue the extremes to which it pushed the envelope on interrogation. "After 9/11 the government said we couldn't win the war on terror unless we had these kinds of policies," says Wendy Patten, U.S. advocacy director of Human...
Your notebook item "A Truce On Terror" [May 3] stated that the cease-fire between the Pakistani military and pro--al-Qaeda fighters "could be a severe setback for the Bush Administration, which has been leaning on Pakistan to carry out a clean sweep of al-Qaeda and the Taliban from the tribal territory." It also stated that "the truce raises doubts about the resolve of the Pakistanis to root out al-Qaeda fugitives from the tribal areas." But violence only begets violence. In the Iraqi town of Fallujah, Americans were fighting the so-called liberated Iraqis, whereas...
...TEAM beat Saudi Arabia, 3-1, to qualify for its first-ever Olympic berth. Baghdad's beleaguered residents reveled in their victory, firing tracer rounds and other ammo into the air. For a squad once routinely brutalized by Saddam Hussein's son Uday, the game was finally untainted by terror...