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...implemented relatively quickly and has the advantage of a first-round knockout - it doesn't seriously test the political-military stamina of the U.S. war effort. Skeptics foresee massive loss of life on both sides (and among Iraqi civilians) in a battle for Baghdad's streets. Indeed, they warn, Saddam's own battle plan will be precisely to draw American ground forces into Iraq's cities rather than face them out on the plains where U.S. air power would decide the outcome. Civilian casualties would inflame the already antagonistic Muslim world against America, and also risk thousands of American lives...
...Isolating Riyadh, though, carries risks. Western diplomats warn that the al-Saud clan, which has ruled the kingdom for the past century, is the only Western-leaning institution left in a fundamentalist state that is growing younger, poorer and more radical. "Let's say we decided to split sheets with the Saudis. What would replace them would not be a pretty sight," says a U.S. diplomat. "You could see another Taliban. There's no moderate group that could come in and take over...
...some definable rules should apply to this doctrine was an amusingly arrogant demand for intellectual control. But the U.S. is facing an acute life-or-death situation in which it needs no formal doctrine to permit a first strike against those who wish to kill us. For Elliott to warn that our prerogative to strike pre-emptively without a neat list of rules invites "international anarchy" is to advocate suicide. It's like saying "Give me order, or give me death!" PATRICK DOLLARD Beverly Hills, Calif...
...raised as vegans, rejecting even milk and eggs. The American Dietetic Association says it is possible to raise kids as vegans but cautions that special care must be taken with nursing infants (who don't develop properly without the nutrients in mother's milk or fortified formula). Other researchers warn that infants breast-fed by vegans have lower levels of vitamin B12 and DHA (an omega-3 fatty acid), important to vision and growth...
...Warn students to call the police if they see strangers around the dorm—the words that come to mind are “lurking,” “idling,” or “trying to make conversation with students,” all of which the young men who got into Straus were doing,” the email read...