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...second resolution offers a number of benefits to the Administration. First, it plays to the concerns of the American public: in a new TIME/CNN poll, 61% of Americans either oppose a war in Iraq on any terms, or would support one only if it had U.N. backing. In the Arab world, diplomats believe a U.N. mandate for military action is essential if a war is not to be seen as a crude display of American power. Keeping the issue of Iraq under the U.N. umbrella, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal told TIME recently, "would remove the idea that...
...hard to avoid the conclusion: in terms of American public opinion, political support in Britain and the Arab states, facilitating military action, and the cost of war and reconstruction, securing a second Security Council resolution would do the U.S. a lot of good. Will such a resolution be passed? While Bush headed off to his ranch in Texas last weekend, the answer to that question was left with a man whose language epitomizes those very shades of gray that Bush seems to hate. "I'm not rushing to conclusions," says Blix; "I have to be a lawyer ... Monitoring requires patience...
Well, they've been one of the best-organized regimes in the Arab world. But then, if they destroyed their documents with that efficiency, there might be relatively little left. But when they've had need of something to show, then they have been able...
Long before Saddam Hussein's face-off against the U.S., another controversial Arab leader provoked U.S. concern in the Middle East, Egypt's President GAMAL ABDEL NASSER...
...teetering triumph for Gamal Abdel Nasser, the new Alexander of the Eastern Mediterranean, a conqueror who has never marched beyond his balcony, a soldier whose victories are made from military defeats, a victor who has never won a war or even a battle. By marshaling the emotions of the Arab masses, articulating their angriest aspirations, stirring their most vituperative violence by his press and radio, and plotting to subvert rulers everywhere, Nasser had achieved his pinnacle. This vigorous and magnetic figure, who wears Western-style sports clothes but kneels toward Mecca with the strictest mullah, had burst into history...