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...behind their air and artillery attacks. We were walking past a small airport called Spriggs Payne, held that morning by Taylor's rebels, when we suddenly discovered ourselves, with our N.P.F.L. bodyguard, behind ECOMOG lines. A group of Guinean and Ghanaian soldiers ordered us to accompany them to their base camp just west of Spriggs Payne. "Look what we've got!" shouted one. "Taylor's writers -- and we got us a rebel!" As more ECOMOG soldiers gathered, the scene turned ugly. The soldiers began to push us toward the rear of the camp, their rifles in our backs. One trooper...
...chances of capturing the growing Latino vote if it seems to be a party that is opposed to immigration. The White House, which has aggressively courted Latinos, has taken a more immigrant-friendly approach, with President Bush pushing for a guest worker program. But much of the GOP conservative base is concerned about the problems of illegal immigration, and Senate Republican Leader Bill Frist, who needs their support for a possible run at the 2008 presidential nomination, is pushing a bill that emphasizes border enforcement without a guest worker program...
...Hussein because Iraqis were starving and there was corruption in the U.N. oil-for-food program. The U.S. went to war in Iraq ostensibly to contain Islamic terrorism. But the allegation that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction was just an excuse to invade, and Iraq was not a base for Islamic terrorists. By ousting Saddam, the U.S. gave jihadists another base. The attack on the Taliban in Afghanistan was the right way to go. The U.S. should have put pressure on all countries in which Islamic terrorism has training camps and madrasahs, where the young are brainwashed into...
...nuclear issue to cement his claim to power, according to some top government advisers. He can bypass the ruling clerics by appealing to the street, framing the right to nuclear energy as a populist cause and the centerpiece of his campaign to restore revolutionary ideals--and solidify his base in the military and revolutionary apparatus. That requires a return to the 1980s atmosphere of siege, rallying Iranians by whipping up animosity toward a common enemy, the West. To a generation forged in the heat of revolution and war, diplomacy is akin to slow surrender. "He's using the nuclear issue...
...people who are given a chance for self-awareness, self-discovery and self-expression?a chance to exhale?after having been oppressed, shackled, silenced and placed in the dark. The unfortunate thing is that terrorists and enemies of the free world have now seized on Iraq as a base from which to operate. The world must hope that the Iraqis resist them. Cosmas Uzoma Odoemena Sokoto, Nigeria...