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...Gaulle said he was motivated always by "a certain idea of France." Nostalgia for that exalted status, hunger for imperial gloire, is what animates French policy today. France does not expect to rival America but to tame it, restrain it, thwart it - and to accept the world's laurels for having...
...Gaulle said he was motivated always by "a certain idea of France." Nostalgia for that exalted status, hunger for imperial gloire, is what animates French policy today. France does not expect to rival America but to tame it, restrain it, thwart it--and to accept the world's laurels for having...
...Iraqi people may deserve a better government, but would they (and the rest of the Islamic world) accept an American protectorate? This would lead to an outbreak of terrorism and could destabilize moderate Islamic countries. How can the Bush Administration be so shortsighted? Iraq may not be the only country that needs a better President. MORENA NANNETTI Munich...
...collapse of the regime with minimal loss of life. Saddam has planned all along on forcing the coalition to fight a bloody battle for Baghdad, believing that the spectacle of mass civilian deaths and significant military casualties on the coalition side would raise political pressure on President Bush to accept something short of complete victory. As implausible as that scenario may be, it may be shaping the Iraq battle plan. Saddam's priorities in the first days of the U.S.-led attack were to physically survive "decapitation" strikes; maintain the cohesion of his core fighting forces and his ability...
...parking lot right in the middle of town, between the vegetable bazaar and the local police station, are a handful of Turkish tanks and 20 or so soldiers. We ask a policeman if there had been any new arrivals. "No," he said. "No one here would accept them...