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The Pentagon is now within eight weeks of being ready to launch a sustained military campaign to overthrow Iraq's Saddam Hussein and destroy his weapons of horror.

When Hans Blix visited the White House last autumn to discuss putting UN inspectors into Iraq, U.S. officials urged him to double or triple their number. No can do, the Swedish treaty lawyer responded: I can't find enough qualified people and I certainly can't organise that number in a few months.

New dangers as well as the Bush administration's policies now force other nationsto choose. "With us or against us" did not hold up as a binding injunction, or even a workable test of moral clarity in fighting terrorism. Pakistan, Yemen and other countries proved they could be both at different times, or even simultaneously.

Success in Iraq could also begin a new stage for Middle Eastern peace, and set in motion progress towards a truly democratic Palestinian state. ...

The defiance of one grumpy old man derailed peace plans put forward by diplomats from the United Nations and European Union. "We have reached the end of the road," UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said wearily after an all-night negotiation collapsed Tuesday because this grumpster would not see multi-lateral reason.

Saddam using 'shame' weapon

It is audacious of U.S. President George W. Bush and his National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, to think that Americans can achieve a modern state in Iraq.

Just as most Republican candidates are hostile to undocumented refugees, hotheads in France blame their country’s problems almost entirely on a Muslim minority

US president acquiring bargaining chips for China relationship

US should see to it that the bloc’s Atlantic Resolve to bolster Ukraine’s neighbours is matched by efforts in the Mediterranean crisis