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...George W. Bush's idea of making the world safe from terrorism and creating a model of democracy in the Middle East is nothing short of ridiculous. To initiate a war and kill thousands of innocent people is immoral. Going it alone in the face of opposition from our NATO allies and U.N. member states has undercut our leadership, cost the U.S. billions of dollars and put our people and economy in jeopardy. Iraq is now a morass that makes a democracy there all but impossible. William Hewett East Canton...
...originally disdained help from countries that doubted him, now would welcome their soldiers and money. But help is not on the way. France and Germany have made it clear that they won't send troops, and last week German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder said he had "doubts" about whether any NATO forces should go. Britain is reluctant to send more soldiers...
...better place to start the search than Normandy, and no better time than now. The allies meet three times in the next month, not only for mood music in France but also for substance at a g-8 summit on Sea Island, GA., and again at a NATO meeting in Istanbul. George Robertson, the British former NATO secretary-general, says that "with everyone in the same room at the same time, they won't be able to run away from the problems." Don't expect a Marshall Plan for the Middle East by the end of June, but if leaders...
...place; the $1.2-billion Olympic security budget is over three times that of the last summer games, in Sydney, Australia, and security is being coordinated not just by Greek authorities but also by a seven-member intelligence Advisory Group that includes the U.S., Britain, France and Israel. Last month, NATO agreed to provide 24-hour AWACS surveillance. U.S. battleships will be steaming offshore. Israeli intelligence teams are consulting on the suicide bomber threat; Russian experts are advising on Chechen-style suicide attacks. Athens is supposed to be the best defended Games ever. Then three bombs go off right behind...
...political thinkers in Europe. In the 1980s he convinced his party that it could not change the world unless it became more pragmatic and therefore electable. He has helped modernize German thinking on the use of force: without his personal intervention, the Bundestag would have voted to support neither NATO action against Serbia in 1999 nor the deployment of German troops to Afghanistan two years later. And his speech at Berlin's Humboldt University four years ago triggered a major debate on how closely the countries of the European Union should be integrated...