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...certain to encourage similar measures by other Asian states, raising the risk of a new arms race. This bizarre overhaul of 50 years of non-proliferation doctrine is designed to garner Chinese support for the missile shield, by ensuring that the nuclear missile defense will not in any way threaten China’s ability to attack the United States. It is one thing to aim at a theater missile defense that would be more limited but also more reliable; it is quite another to encourage potential rivals to build more missiles than even an extensive missile shield can stop...
...Boycotting the racism conference simply reinforces a perception in the Arab world that support for the U.S. is support for Israel. And that's a perception that can threaten U.S. interests on everything from Iraq policy to investigations of Osama Bin Laden's terror operations. The perception of the U.S. as Israel's unconditional ally also raises the inclination among militant groups to target U.S. interests for revenge attacks. After Monday's assassination of PFLP leader Abu Ali Mustafa by Israeli helicopters, his group vowed to take revenge on U.S. as well as Israeli targets...
...knows would dominate the front pages for days, weeks and months. So this is another reminder of the risks of the "no-fly zone" policy, which the U.S. and Britain maintain in order to restrict Saddam's ability to move troops around either to suppress domestic opposition or to threaten to invade another neighbor. Because the 1990 invasion caught everyone by surprise - the U.S. had good relations with Saddam before that, on the grounds that Iraq was the strategic underpinning of the containment of Iran. The "no-fly zone" makes it hard for Saddam to spring any more surprises...
...Driven by fear that the passions ignited by the ongoing Palestinian uprising could soon threaten their own somewhat precarious domestic political situation, the Egyptians are pressing the U.S. to work together with Arab moderates to lower the political temperature in the West Bank and Gaza. Essentially they're offering Arab assistance in pressing Arafat to tamp down violence if Washington will press Israel to show restraint and to make the concessions, in line with the Mitchell recommendations, that would give Arafat political cover to curb the militants...
...part, Armstrong has been tested and tested again, and he has never tested positive. Each time the question comes up, the cancer survivor responds coolly, saving his incredulity for after the press conference. I have been to the cusp of life and death, he has said. Why would I threaten my health just to win a bike race...