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...American, World War I and World War II). Bush has congressional resolutions authorizing force. But you do not want to go into a (to say the least) controversial war, opposed by much of the world, when protected merely by the fine print. I wish Bush had the full constitutional writ behind him. He is a gambler, of course. He's going to be awfully lonely if this goes wrong. Will he be a hero if it goes well...
...rumpled lawyers who always see both sides of a question--could hardly be more different from George W. Bush, a man of clenched jaw and moral clarity. Yet the Swede's words now have the sort of power that some Bush Administration officials would otherwise ascribe only to Holy Writ. If Blix says that his inspectors are making progress on disarming Iraq, then the U.S. probably will not soon win broad international backing for a war. If, on the other hand, Blix concludes that Iraq has had no intention of cooperating with the inspectors, then the U.S. might...
...Force (ISAF), whose leadership is about to pass from Turkey to a joint German-Dutch command. Until very recently, the Pentagon seemed anything but keen to see ISAF's mission extended beyond Kabul, to which it is limited. Yet if a new Afghan nation is to be built, its writ will need to run in more places than the capital city...
...Nowhere is this sense that the Bush Doctrine really means Manifest Destiny writ globally more worrying than in Indonesia. The country has been battered by terrorism?a series of unexplained terrorist bombings over the past few years includes the October conflagration in Bali that killed 191 innocents?yet only 31% of Indonesians polled by Pew approved of Bush's war on terror. Many of them see it as a war on Muslims?on themselves?not on the terrorist networks their own police have uncovered. After the Bali attack rumors spread, and usually reliable newspapers conjectured, that the CIA was behind...
...become a norm. That's because it only really becomes feasible in situations where the sovereign power is either both hostile to the U.S. and unable to police its own airspace (as was the case in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan), or else where it is unable to enforce its own writ, as in Yemen and one or two other weak states such as Somalia. If U.S. intelligence had discovered al-Harthi hiding out in Pakistan rather than Yemen, it would have been more likely to send rely on the local security forces to roll...