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...months since Baghdad fell. The daily average number of attacks on U.S. forces has risen from 15-20 in the late summer to around 30 today, and U.S. casualty figures are going up as well. And the high profile strikes on targets as diverse as the UN and the International Committee of the Red Cross to the embassies of Jordan and Turkey reveal a clear-eyed political agenda on the part of their authors: To spread fear among those inclined to work with the U.S. in the hope of sabotaging the reconstruction effort, and panicking ordinary Iraqis by showing that...
...efforts of Jordan's King Abdullah to facilitate back-channel communication between Washington and Tehran. Unlike North Korea, which, if anything, exaggerates its nuclear weapons capability, Iran insists it has no clandestine bomb program. But IAEA investigations have found evidence of secret uranium enrichment facilities, and the UN nuclear watchdog had put Iran on notice to sign an agreement accepting more intrusive inspections by October 31, or else. Again, although hawkish elements in the Bush administration had favored a more vigorous pursuit of "regime-change" in Tehran, Washington has pursued the issue of Iran's nuclear capability primarily through...
...front-page cartoon in Corriere Della Sera, Italy's leading daily, said it all. A scrum of center-left opposition figures - communists, reformers, party chairmen, union bosses - hoisted a man named Gianfranco Fini on their shoulders and shouted: finalmente un leader! Finally - but Fini is no center-left leader. He's head of the right-wing, "post-fascist" National Alliance Party, and Deputy Prime Minister in Silvio Berlusconi's governing coalition. The opposition can't stand Berlusconi, but they were feting his right-hand man because Fini had suggested that immigrants "who live, work and pay taxes in Italy" should...
First Lady Laura Bush’s recent trip to Paris got the United States back into the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) for the first time since Reagan pulled us out 20 years ago, which is good for us. It also got her into a mini sex scandal with the French president, which is also good...
...fences with the international community and, more particularly, the French. It was a particularly deft move by the Bush administration, sending the president’s better half to clean up the worse half’s mess. Laura does the dirty work, kissing up to President Chirac, the UN, and the French people, while Bush reaps the rewards unscathed...