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...matter what any so-called expert says about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction, no outsider has been able to collect any evidence to verify their assertions since 1998. In addition to thumbing his nose at almost every U.N. resolution since 1991, which ought to anger our European allies, and his efforts over the last 20 years to build nuclear weapons and support worldwide terror, Hussein has amassed a brainwashed following in Iraq and parts of the Middle East, and is one of the last modern war criminals still running his country. There is enough moral and political...
...tribunal has given him the kiss of life." That is quite an achievement. It was Serbs, after all, who dumped the ex-apparatchik from power two years ago and then gleefully tore his campaign posters from city walls. Today his quarrelsome successors have siphoned off some of that anger. And Milosevic, the consummate party hack, has skillfully repackaged himself as an outsider. His decision to represent himself in court combined with his physical isolation in the Hague helped foster the image of one man standing against a powerful foe. So too has the unnamed heart ailment that repeatedly halted proceedings...
...defended, they are matched by a history of injustice and oppression in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere perpetrated by those friendly to the U.S., whose concern with its supposed self-interest and its political ends has eclipsed its concern for the value of human lives and fueled much of the anger against it. Greater commitment to breaking the cycle of poverty and violence in the past might have prevented today’s stark choices from ever arising...
Beyond rebuilding the areas that were directly hit by the terrorists, America is in the process of restructuring its intelligence and security agencies to better prevent future tragedy. At the same time, it is crucial that we do not misdirect our anger at racial or ethnic groups. A year ago, President Bush and others rightly and immediately emphasized that Arab-Americans must not be targeted in the aftermath of the attacks. Yet there were still isolated incidents of violence—and more pervasive but less visible, a widespread sense of distrust of anyone who looked like the stereotypical...
...other setbacks for the rank and file. Workers picketed GM's Seoul sales office on and off for more than a year and rioted outside Daewoo's Bupyeong plant near Seoul. The unionists even dispatched a mission to GM's U.S. headquarters to persuade executives to back off. The anger persists. GM is "a multinational, imperialist company," declares Kim Il Seob, the workers' union president. The takeover "equals layoffs and unstable employment...