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...invert the old proverb, what comes down must go up. More than a week since the liberation of Baghdad, the military preeminence of the Anglo-American coalition in Iraq seems assured. Saddam Hussein’s regime has fallen and will never again oppress the Iraqi people. The real challenge for America, however, is not the toppling of a tinpot director—a military triumph for the mightiest army the world has ever seen was never in doubt—but the forging of a stable country in the wake of Saddam’s departure...
...Staff is right that the U.S.—and not Iraqi citizens—must pay for the rebuilding since the U.S. started the war and destroyed much of Iraq’s infrastructure. But that money must go to international—not Anglo-American—peacekeepers and contractors to help mend America’s ties to key international allies. Iraq is going to need a lot of outside attention for several years before democracy takes root, and the U.N. must be the primary governing force for the long haul
...wine." Diplomacy, the French like to say, is sovereign; commerce ranks somewhere below. And angry wine merchants alone don't explain why official France is shucking off some of its haughty principles and doing what it can to get back in the fold; the hard reality of the swift Anglo-American victory in Iraq gives it little alternative. Chirac's phone call on Tuesday to Bush - their first conversation since Feb. 7, characterized as "positive" by the Elysée and as "business-like" by the White House - was a station of the cross on that pre-Easter walk...
...psychological "shock and awe" campaign early on that didn't produce a coup or surrender or mass defections, by the constant quibbling over whether the images of Saddam were real or not, and by the very use of the term coalition to describe a force that was plainly Anglo-American. I suspect that we will long be haunted by the prediction of Egypt's Hosni Mubarak last week: that this war may produce "a hundred [Osama] bin Ladens...
...them," a senior State Department official said--and claimed that the inspectors are ignoring tips from U.S. intelligence and capitulating to Iraqi intimidation. Inspectors vehemently deny the charges. But Powell's Russian and French counterparts hailed the reports of progress and repeated their threats to block passage of the Anglo-American resolution. French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin rejected the idea that the British amendment amounted to a compromise, saying, "We would not accept a resolution that will lead...