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...worth it? In a Gallup poll last week, 60% of those surveyed said no. In the pages that follow, a diverse and international group of thinkers give their opinions. Many people approached by TIME refused to answer. Perhaps they share the view expressed last week in Sydney by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice: "I think the outcome, the judgment, of all of this needs to await history...
RICHARD HAASS After three years, my answer would be no, although any judgment at this point is necessarily an interim one. The war has absorbed a tremendous amount of U.S. military capacity, the result being that the U.S. has far less spare or available capacity to use in the active sense or to exploit in the diplomatic sense. It has weakened our position against both North Korea and Iran. It has exacerbated U.S. fiscal problems. The war has also contributed to the world's alienation from the U.S. and made it more difficult to galvanize international support for U.S. policy...
...Risky Operation U.N. ambassador John Bolton's answer to your question about the possibility of a more aggressive response to the genocide in Darfur was quite telling [Feb. 27]. He said, "You could end up with a lot of dead military people and not save a single civilian." The Janjaweed militia, which is doing the killing, is armed with rifles and riding horses and camels. Surely the U.S. military is capable of taking them on. Pete Castelluccio Indianapolis...
...politics.The New York-based playwright and self-described “Jewish-American gay socialist” brought these many facets of his persona to controversial interpretations of Miller’s plays as well as his own construction of Jewish identity.A GAY JEW IN LOUISIANAIn a question-and-answer session with about 40 Harvard students at Hillel, the Louisiana-raised Kushner recalled how Judaism helped him get through a childhood of ostracism for being gay.“Being Jewish helped me understand how I could be something that the rest of the world said...
...from “Grail” word for word—likely lack the princely sums or insider connections required to get tickets to a show that sold out months ago. Given such barriers, the question of why Harvard audiences should even care about the musical requires an answer that speaks to something the show itself. The most obvious one is that “Spamalot”—while containing subversive numbers like “The Song Goes Like This,” a parody of the cliché-riddled spectacles discussed above?...