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...believe that it is necessary. The hole couldn't weaken the hull badly enough to pose a risk to raising the whole submarine. Also, this hole is the only "silent witness" of what happened. Making the cut through it will destroy whatever forensic evidence there is. Anyway, trying to cut the eight meter wide hull with a chain is ridiculous nonsense...
Think of it as the "If-you-build-it-they-will-come" approach to peacekeeping. NATO troops continued to pour into Macedonia Wednesday for "Operation Essential Harvest," ostensibly a 30-day mission in which 3,500 alliance soldiers are to destroy weapons voluntarily handed over by ethnic-Albanian guerrillas. But while the NATO force has become the focus of efforts to end the insurgency that brought the country to the brink of civil war, it has no peacekeeping mandate and the disarmament process is an entirely voluntary affair not covered by any peace deal. Indeed, NATO's official position...
...wheezy end, for the wider world it has ushered in a mix of the promise (and perils) of a truly global capitalist economy and mounting geopolitical uncertainty. It seemed safe to assume, a decade ago, that the end of a conflict between two powers whose combined nuclear arsenals could destroy the planet 300 times over would leave the world a safer place. Instead, today's world is more dangerous than ever. The very power in those nuclear arsenals - once they confronted the reality of using them during the Cuban missile crisis of 1962 - created an overriding incentive to avoid...
...precisely the failure of one-off air strikes and the killing of individual militants to end Palestinian attacks that has many voices in Sharon's cabinet and security forces demanding that Israel go in and destroy the Palestinian Authority altogether, forcing Arafat and his leadership cadre back into exile. That pressure will, no doubt, grow in the coming days, although Sharon has strongly resisted it. As emotionally appealing as such a course might be to an Israeli public whose nerves are frayed by the endless violence, it carries even more serious dangers. Going in to destroy the PA would leave...
...face." Instead, the Senate leader called for a reallocation for some funds away from missile defense towards improvement of "theater" missile defenses to protect U.S. personnel in combat situations from short-range and cruise missile attack, for counter-terrorism programs and for an under-funded scheme to help Russia destroy nuclear weapons...