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...North Korea? If the Iraqi people deserve to live in a free and democratic state, why don't the Saudi people? If we are willing to pay the price of toppling Saddam, will we also pay the price of staying to clean up the neighborhood? And the thorniest question of all: If the last Gulf War helped inspire evil in bin Laden, will a new one create many more like...
Powell is pushing for early recognition of a Palestinian state, a firm time line for determining its borders and capital, and a strong U.S. statement on the thorniest issues. Rumsfeld and Cheney oppose an assertive American solution; instead, they want to give Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon a freer hand to tackle Palestinian terrorists and leave tough final-status issues for well down the line. Bush has left it to his aides to fight over which of the two dramatically different approaches he will endorse. And fight they have. When Powell told an Arab newspaper that the Administration was leaning...
...candidate, George W. Bush promised "to end tariffs and break down barriers everywhere, entirely, so the whole world trades in freedom." Now, political reality has settled in. By March 6, President Bush must make one of the thorniest decisions of his presidency: whether or not to erect hefty tariffs on cheap imported steel to protect the withering U.S. steel industry. And the smart money in Washington has him opting for the tariffs...
...Even with hindsight, it can be hard to determine whether a particular alliance of convenience has done more good than harm. The rise of the Taliban is one of the thorniest examples. Massive American and Saudi supplies of arms and money went to various mujahedin groups in the 1980s, making Afghanistan the U.S.S.R.'s Vietnam. (It also created the conditions for armed and militant religious movements in Afghanistan and Pakistan.) When the Russians left, Pakistan fostered the rise of the Taliban, which was viewed with equanimity by the U.S. Washington hoped the group would end Afghanistan's civil...
...Jakes outstrips the movement's parameters. All Pentecostals know their Bible; fewer have the theological chops to casually drop a quick exegesis of Romans 1-8, perhaps Scripture's thorniest patch, into a sermon in order to explain how its author, the Apostle Paul, fostered cultural diversity in the early church. Jakes does...