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Whomever the American people elect as president tomorrow will be forced to confront this interminable war and its staggering costs. Whoever he is, he will be defined by his ability to resolve these exorbitant commitments without abandoning languishing domestic concerns...
Those shocked by the latest $70 billion addition to Iraq’s price tag should not be. Shock and outrage ought to be directed instead at the aimlessness and flimsy quality of America’s plan for peace. We hope that whoever wins the presidential election tomorrow will present the American people with an actual plan, instead of a list of talking points. We believe that $70 billion can be justified—but only in pursuit of a careful, deliberate, and thoughtful strategy for success...
...dilemmas don't end there. With such a sizable force tied down in Iraq, whoever is President will have fewer military options for curtailing, for example, the nuclear ambitions of Iran and North Korea. He will confront a seething Muslim world unsettled by the war in Iraq and the plight of the Palestinians. And he may well see bin Laden--inspired extremists try to overthrow the government in Pakistan or Saudi Arabia, procure weapons of mass destruction (WMD) or stage another attack on U.S. soil--or all of the above...
...question is whether anyone is listening. Whoever is elected President will be inaugurated amid howling skepticism about U.S. motives in the world. "It's significantly worse than at any time I can remember," says former Indiana Congressman Lee Hamilton, vice chairman of the independent 9/11 commission. "I talk to a lot of people from many countries, and the common refrain I hear is how low our standing is. That's going to be a major challenge to the next President." The failure to find WMD in Iraq dealt a devastating blow to the credibility of U.S. intelligence, compromising...
...video released Friday, referring to British hostage Kenneth Bigley, who was decapitated by his captors earlier this month. Her heartrending plea may not help her abductors' cause with many Iraqis. "To humiliate a woman like this, especially an Arab woman, is unacceptable," says Saad al-Nasseri, a Baghdad businessman. "Whoever has her will get no sympathy from Iraqi people...