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COMMENTARY

Sep 15, 2003

Wanted: a U.S. exit strategy for Iraq

By Doug Bandow

WASHINGTON -- The number of American combat deaths in the Iraq war has surpassed the number in the Persian Gulf War. Even U.S. President George W. Bush has acknowledged that the U.S. faces a "security issue in Iraq," a "massive and long-term undertaking." The conflict will soak up a large share of U.S....

COMMENTARY

Sep 15, 2003

U.N. force key to Iraqi peace

By Hugh Cortazzi

LONDON -- The news from Iraq over the last month has been bleak, with U.S. and British forces continuing to suffer significant casualties. Bomb blasts last month at the U.N. headquarters and a Shiite mosque left many dead and wounded. Acts of sabotage have hindered the resumption of electricity and water...

COMMENTARY / THE VIEW FROM MOSCOW

Sep 14, 2003

An evening like any other at the Bolshoi

By Constantine Pleshakov

MOSCOW -- Already the environs of Bolshoi are very telling. Downtown Moscow recently got a cheap face lift, and all its one-time numerous kiosks that supplied the Russian capital with the mercurial atmosphere of a grand bazaar are gone or, rather, have been displaced into dark alleyways and underground...

COMMENTARY

Sep 14, 2003

Shy man performs historic balancing act

By Tom Plate

HONG KONG -- Because Hong Kong's leader tends to view the news media (local or otherwise) with the enthusiasm of a swimmer greeting a school of sharks, Tung Chee-hwa has scant hope of receiving his due as the historically pivotal man he is. His public image is generally terrible, and he is often portrayed...

COMMENTARY

Sep 13, 2003

Get war on terror on track

By Brahma Chellaney

NEW DELHI -- Violence-extolling Islamists target the United States, Israel and India as their principal enemies. Yet these three democracies are no more secure against terrorism today than before U.S. President George W. Bush launched his global war on terror. In fact, terror at home compelled Ariel...

COMMENTARY

Sep 13, 2003

Can the U.N. handle Iraq?

By David Howell

LONDON -- Everyone wants the United Nations to play a greater role in Iraq -- the Americans included.

COMMENTARY / World

Sep 12, 2003

'Hansonism' alive and well

By Alan Goodall

SYDNEY -- In Asia, her name smelled of White Australia. In Australia, she stirred up prejudice and division. More by accident than design, she got elected to Parliament. Today she languishes in prison.

COMMENTARY / World

Sep 12, 2003

U.S. can still turn it around

By Masamichi Hanabusa

Two years have passed since hateful acts of terrorism shook America to its core and moved it toward a force-oriented and unilateralist world policy. This writer detests and condemns the cruel oppression by the Saddam Hussein regime against its people in Iraq and against its neighbors over the years....

COMMENTARY / World

Sep 11, 2003

Challenge of building peace

By Daisaku Ikeda

"At the top of the pyramid which we call civilization there is still the terrible fact of war. We cannot call ourselves a fully civilized people as long as that possibility exists and is, indeed, taken for granted." These are the heartfelt words of John Kenneth Galbraith, a man who witnessed firsthand...

COMMENTARY / World

Sep 10, 2003

Winds of pragmatism blow in Beijing

By Jonathan Fenby

LONDON -- Like many religions, communism does not admit that it -- or those that represent it at the head of governments -- can make mistakes. Historical inevitability means that the party must be correct. To acknowledge anything else would be to undermine the basic certainties upon which Marxism rests....

COMMENTARY

Sep 10, 2003

China-Japan perception gap

By Brad Glosserman

WHITE FISH, Montana -- The accidental discovery of buried canisters of mustard gas, abandoned by Japanese troops in China over a half century ago, is only the most recent tangible reminder of the unfinished legacy of World War II. Forty Chinese workers were injured and one died after barrels of nerve...

COMMENTARY / World

Sep 9, 2003

Using the right words in Kosovo

By Richard Humphries

When it comes to media access, Kosovo's population is spoiled for choices. No apartment block is complete without its symmetrical rows of white satellite dishes scanning the heavens for news and entertainment. One estimate has it that 75 percent of the population has media access. BBC and MTV are just...

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