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...from taking a meaningful role in many humanitarian efforts. The U.N. has rarely committed itself to large efforts and has failed to stop major human rights atrocities in the five decades following World War II—including the killing fields of Cambodia and Idi Amin’s terror in Uganda to name only a few. Vague Security Council mandates cause U.N. action to be confined to arbitrary rules and confounded goals. In its 1993 intervention in Somalia, for instance, the U.N. dedicated itself to feeding a nation under the grasp of warlords and then refused to engage those...
Perhaps what is most frustrating of all is this: on a Monday afternoon, with 14 more dead because of the anger and terror coming from Jenin, we need no petition’s urging to end occupation. Threatening to choke off Israel’s industries is only an insult to be piled atop our dead. We need a partner for peace, not threats of destruction...
...against terror is no conventional conflict. Without question, we will have to adjust the structure of our society. But as this war of unforeseeable duration continues, it is imperative that we, as vigilant citizens, demand more transparency and accountability from our government. A critical first step is to reexamine the measures hastily enacted in the wake of Sept. 11 and repeal those that are grossly inconsistent with the guarantees of the Constitution. Only a free America can be a secure America...
...Although President Vladimir Putin immediately linked the siege with the global war on terrorism, and charged that the action was planned in a "foreign terrorist center," its roots more likely lie in a long-established tradition among Chechen insurgents of mounting dramatic terror strikes aimed at tilting the balance of power back in their favor. The latest siege is reminiscent of the hostage drama at Budennovsk in 1995, when Chechen rebels led by Shamil Basayev seized a Russian hospital in order, he later said, to make Russians suffer the way Chechens had suffered. Although 166 hostages died when the very...
...young Chechens that theirs is a "doomed generation," fated to be killed by the Russians whether they take up arms or simply stay at home waiting to be taken away in a police security sweep. And that perception has fueled an inclination to go down fighting. Now, a sophisticated terror operation has brought Muscovites face to face with the ongoing war, undermining President Putin's claims of victory and forcing him to cancel his planned attendance at an Asia-Pacific summit where he was to have held talks with President Bush this weekend...