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...Speaker of the House is to be believed, President Bush's foreign policy is being systematically sabotaged by a determined group of fanatics in the very department charged with carrying it out. The evidence? Quite simply that most of the world opposed the U.S. invasion of Iraq; that no UN Security Council resolution could be garnered to authorize it; that Turkey could not be permitted to provide basing rights for a northern front; that the populations of such traditional allies as France, Germany and South Korea have become overwhelmingly hostile to U.S. foreign policy. This, Gingrich concludes, can only...
...according to Gingrich, the State Department has worked systematically to dilute President Bush's Iraq campaign ever since last year's UN address. They began by diluting the impact of Bush's speech by negotiating Resolution 1441, which sent arms inspectors back to Iraq. This is a rather bizarre reading of what was generally hailed as a triumph of administration diplomacy - the resolution passed unanimously, after all. Gingrich and his pals in the ultra-hawkish Defense Policy Board may have wanted to see a resolution back then demanding military action for Iraq's previous non-compliance, but that wouldn...
...Reality check: Hans Blix was appointed head of UNMOVIC in 1999. UNMOVIC differed from its predecessor, UNSCOM, in that it hired its own personnel with a budget drawn from the oil-for-food program. UNSCOM had relied on personnel seconded by intelligence services of the UN member states, and the result was that its independence was compromised by officials conducting espionage work on behalf of their own governments. So Blix's appointment and UNMOVIC's staffing policies were a done deal, and were not up for review in the wake of President Bush's address. Curiously, also, President Bush...
...evoke - where fixed notions of place and time evaporate, plots and passions hinge on chance encounters, and deform-ity and magic are the stuff of life. Despite his low profile to date in Britain, Rhodes' fabulist books have been translated into nine languages. And Timoleon Vieta is a very un-British novel. Not that it matters. It is funny, beguiling and sentimental, with a dark undertow that will tug at the memory at least until Granta publishes its next list in 2013. Rhodes won't be on it because he'll be too old. But here's hoping he keeps...
...message from Turkey's Gul seemed to be, "Get real!" Nothing was said publicly, but Ankara apparently wants Iraq's other neighbors to understand that the world has changed, that the U.S. troops will be in Baghdad for some time to come, and that Washington will not allow the UN or anybody else to have a say in the oil-rich Arab nation's future. In other words, the nervous neighbors might as well learn to live with the new tenant next door. Thus, also, the advice to Damascus to give up its belligerent posture, and recognize that...