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While Baghdad burned, American officials in Iraq squabbled over familiar Washington commodities: turf and money. Adams says members of Garner's team wanted to pay former Iraqi soldiers to perform cleanup and security tasks and were stunned when Bremer told them that was not going to happen (a decision he reversed, in part, after a month of turmoil). Garner's 200-member Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance in Iraq found itself unable to exert authority over the activities of the 146,000 soldiers in Iraq, let alone Iraqi civilians. And part of the problem was Garner himself...
Have we finally reached that small, rocky piece of political turf where Tony Blair stands up to George W. Bush and publicly says, "No more"? Britain hopes so. With Blair heading to Washington this week to address a joint meeting of Congress, a rare honor for a foreign leader, the entire British political establishment - Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat - united last week to pressure the Prime Minister into doing exactly that. The reason: the Pentagon's announcement that two Britons held for months at Camp Delta, the U.S. military prison for suspected terrorists at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba...
...senior U.S. official says, "there's a good deal of concern at the State Department" about rising British bad feeling, not least because "Blair's support has been so noteworthy that they'd like to bend over backward to help." But Guantánamo is the military's turf, "and they couldn't give a rip," says one U.S. diplomat - London wasn't even given advance notice of the decision to try Abbasi and Begg in Guantánamo. Luigi Manconi, a former Italian senator who now heads the human- rights watchdog A Buon Diritto, thinks the Pentagon...
...Administration that treads on this turf needs to make - and remake - its case. There is nothing wrong with trying to make the world a better place, ameliorate suffering or overthrow tyranny. But if you are going to spend American blood and treasure to do all that in places that do not appear to pose a direct threat to the U.S., you had better be prepared to explain what you are doing and why. Successive Administrations during the Vietnam War were unable to do that. So, for the most part, were Albright and Clinton. Unless George W. Bush is extremely lucky...
When Angela Ramsay and Henk Tjalsma decided to get married, they had to make a Solomonic choice. She's British and he's Dutch, so a wedding on either's home turf would have meant an overseas trip for the other's family. So they opted for Tuscany, inviting only their closest relatives. "We'd been on holiday there and just fell in love with it," says Ramsay. Some Internet research led the couple to settle on a ceremony in the town of Certaldo, and to entrust the planning to WeddingItaly by Punto di Fuga, an Udine-based company that...