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...suicide bombing in Jakarta focused on the terrorism still prevalent in Indonesia [Sept. 20]. That attack came less than two years after the October 2002 bombing on the island of Bali that killed 202 people. Indonesians today are praying for peace in the region and an end to terrorist activities. The devastation in Indonesia has shocked the world and clearly shows that Muslim nations are strongly affected by terrorism, the same way other countries are. Peace is something the region demands. Akshay Mor Bombay...
Seven months ago, opposition leader Mark Latham announced on a radio talk show that if his Labor Party won the upcoming election it would pull Australian troops out of Iraq "by Christmas." Two weeks earlier, a terrorist bombing in Madrid had helped elect a socialist government pledged to withdraw Spanish troops from Iraq. For voters, Latham's vow is not the main issue in the Oct. 9 election, but for observers around the world it's practically the only...
...Iraq has heightened their differences. In the government's view, Labor's hostility to the war reflects all that is wrong with the leftist world view: excessive faith in the United Nations, failure to grasp the global nature of the terrorist threat, and an unwarranted suspicion of the world's most powerful nation. For Labor, the "rush to war" in Iraq exposed the blind spots in the government's foreign policy: excessive closeness to Washington ("sucking up" is Latham's term), insufficient respect for the U.N., and a wrongheaded readiness to fight other people's wars...
...some Australians on the Labor side wary of getting too close. "Following a U.S. President who's got the wrong strategy in the war against terror is very, very dangerous for our country," said Latham before the Iraq war. Sending troops to Iraq "has made Australia into a greater terrorist target," says Rudd. Downer disagrees. "We cannot expect to have a meaningful alliance with the U.S. if we are not prepared to stand shoulder to shoulder with it in the war on terror," he says, and the project to build democracy in Iraq is a crucial component of that...
...Organizations like Jemaah Islamiah have very close links with terrorist organizations beyond our region. To think you can simply focus on the region and get away with ignoring all the other challenges the war on terror brings us is mistaken." Ending Taliban rule in Afghanistan reduced the flow of al-Qaeda-trained terrorists into Southeast Asia, Downer points out. On the other hand, Labor's Christmas troop pullout from Iraq "would give an enormous propaganda victory to the terrorists, not just in Iraq but elsewhere, including Southeast Asia." Abu Baker Bashir, the alleged leader of J.I., said last month that...