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Predictably, though, the international community greeted Operation Babylon with near-universal condemnation. The Arab League issued a joint statement calling the bombing “a dangerous precedent that threatens world peace and security.” French Prime Minister Pierre Mauroy deemed the strike “unacceptable,” and the British Foreign Office labeled it “an unprovoked attack” that constituted “a grave breach of international law which could have the most serious consequences.” The United Nations Security Council—in a unanimous...
...prospect flatly rejected by Washington, and also by the Europeans. It remains to be seen whether Baghdad will seek to continue preventing inspections of Saddam's palaces and other politically sensitive sites, or to blacklist inspectors believed to be spying for the U.S. Russia and Iraq's Arab neighbors will likely be doing their utmost to persuade Saddam that he has no alternative but to swallow whatever the UN demands. The Iraqi leader's own instinct will to use any discord between the U.S. and its allies to push back and play for time. And President Bush will be waiting...
...Saddam's timing may have disrupted the White House's efforts to build a coalition for war on the basis of Iraq's continued defiance of UN disarmament resolutions. War-wary allies in Europe and the Arab world had moved closer to the U.S. position following President Bush's UN speech a week ago in which he shifted the onus for avoiding war onto Baghdad by demanding that Saddam be forced to comply with UN resolutions he has routinely defied over the past decade. The administration may have expected Saddam to eventually cave in on the inspection issue...
...times, but they are also sad for the families grieving for the innocent collateral damage in the war against the Taliban, in Afghanistan. These times are also angry times—for those subject to terrorist attack, whether in New York, Jerusalem or Jenin. Angry times, too, for the Arab street. They are worrying times for those whose intellectual responsibility is to think through the nature of the contemporary world, to the causes and effects of terrorism and its cousin, instability...
...Bush administration's immediate response will be to persist in crafting a strong UN Security Council resolution demanding Iraqi compliance with various previous resolutions, and threatening military action as the price for defiance. But Saddam's letter has given Russia, France, the Saudis, Egypt and other European and Arab allies looking to avoid a war something to work with...