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...nature of its enemies, is it easier or harder for the President to stand before the United Nations and the American people and defend a plan to continue that war by launching another one? A year after 9/11, does Bush have to prove some connection between Saddam and Osama bin Laden, or is it enough that since that day, Americans have the dark imagination to see what an enemy can do to destroy us? With each new speech, each meeting with congressional leaders, each Op-Ed salvo, the Administration is speaking to a curious and conflicted public. Is this...
...tough arguments he has to make; they are less about what Saddam has than about who he is and what he purportedly wants. To help make the case, the White House is working hard to track down one graphic exhibit: a video, which Saudi Ambassador Prince Bandar bin Sultan has told Bush about, that is said to show Saddam presiding over the execution of political opponents...
...free and democratic state, why don't the Saudi people? If we are willing to pay the price of toppling Saddam, will we also pay the price of staying to clean up the neighborhood? And the thorniest question of all: If the last Gulf War helped inspire evil in bin Laden, will a new one create many more like...
...wouldn't exist." Perhaps the biggest benefit of U.S. involvement over the past decade is the message it has sent to the Islamic world that the U.S. can be on Muslims' side. Until the Americans stepped in, Bosnia was a celebrated cause for anti-Western extremists like Osama bin Laden. Dozens of al-Qaeda recruits cut their teeth in the Bosnian war. That the region did not become a hotbed of militant Islam is thanks in part to U.S. intervention. But the battle for hearts and minds isn't over. "America's national interests are in the Balkans as much...
Fourth, it's hard to be rational about the irrational. Who can guess intelligently what Osama bin Laden might want to try next? How can you discourage a suicide bomber who is looking forward to being dead after killing you? Irrationality holds a treasured place in game theory, the branch of economics dedicated to strategic questions of this sort. Game theory's great insight is that irrationality can be an asset. If you can convince the world that you're nuts--and the surest way to do that is to be nuts--your behavior becomes impossible to predict or control...