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...would withdraw from the occupied territories, which would be administered by an international body that could provide the troops to protect the sovereignty of both sides and could oversee the democratization of Palestinian political institutions. Kosovo might provide something of a precedent, with NATO troops guaranteeing security and the UN running the political administration for an interim period likely to last at least a decade. Of course such plans also have plenty of flaws, but they do point to the emerging reality that whatever succeeds the ?roadmap? is likely to be a set of proposals considerably more robust than those...
...Book" contains excerpts from the artist's sketchbooks kept between 1986 and 1995. While the hyper-self-conscious formal works use comix as a complex exploration of such fundamental human experiences as loss, loneliness and love, the sketchbooks offer a tantalizing enrichment of the author's themes through his un-self-conscious doodles...
...Iraq and wage war on American forces there. U.S. forces have captured foreign jihadists during sweeps north of Baghdad, and it was reported this week that up to 3,000 Saudi Islamists may have gone to Iraq to fight the U.S. Tuesday's killer blast at the UN compound was the latest reminder of the difficulties in stabilizing Iraq. The resistance appears to diverse and growing, feeding on religious and nationalist resentment at the occupation and the anger of ordinary Iraqis at the failure of the U.S. to ensure security and restore such basics as electricity and water. The insurgents...
...give generously when Paul Bremer next comes calling for a reconstruction effort already projecting a $4 billion budget deficit for 2004. European governments and international lending institutions have made clear they will lend only to a duly elected Iraqi government, or in the case of the Europeans, to a UN authority in Baghdad...
...rebuilding Iraq if the burden is not to become an intolerable strain on America's economy and society. And eliciting such help may require the curbing of the Bush administration's signature unilateralism. Some of that may be afoot in reports that the Bush administration may, after all, seek UN authorization for an international security force...