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...NATO 2.0 Re Walter Isaacson's "A NATO for the Middle East" [Feb. 5]: The U.S. never stops promoting democracy, but there have been times when it has distanced itself from elected governments. The U.S. tacitly approved of the Algerian army's canceling a 1992 election won by an Islamic party, and Washington continues to be reluctant to recognize Hamas as the representative of the Palestinian people. It seems that Uncle Sam wants democracy only on his own terms. Max Desouza Toronto...
...Afghan officials have long accused Pakistan of supporting the Taliban insurgency as a way to gain strategic leverage in the region, a claim Islamabad contests. But over the past several months mounting evidence gathered by U.S., NATO and Afghan intelligence agencies indicates that the resurgent Taliban has treated the Pakistan-Afghanistan border as a revolving door: attacking coalition troops in Afghanistan, then retreating to the ungoverned western frontier of Pakistan to regroup and re-equip...
...NATO 2.0 Re Walter Isaacson's "A NATO for the Middle East" [Feb. 5]: The U.S. never stops promoting democracy, but there have been times when it has distanced itself from elected governments. The U.S. tacitly approved of the Algerian army's canceling a 1992 election won by an Islamic party, and Washington continues to be reluctant to recognize Hamas as the representative of the Palestinian people. It seems that Uncle Sam wants democracy only on his own terms. Max Desouza Toronto...
...Imagining a New NATO In Light of the Global Threat of Terrorism, Walter Isaacson asked, "What would George Marshall and Dean Acheson be doing now?" [Feb. 5]. Isaacson suggested that they might be forging a Mideast Antiterrorism Organization (MATO) whose members would include Israel and Iraq. I doubt it. I rather suspect that Marshall and Acheson would be saying they told us so. Both men were vehemently opposed to the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine because they recognized that it was immoral and that it would open up a can of worms that would haunt the region...
...Russian energy sector into a sleazy scam, trading oil and gas fields for campaign contributions. Meanwhile, ordinary Russians had to endure rampant inflation and unemployment. Small wonder Russia's geopolitical standing seemed to crumble during the 1990s. As former Soviet republics and Warsaw Pact allies queued up to join NATO, the superpower seemed really to have become--as the cold war joke had it--Upper Volta with missiles...