Tuesday, March 25th, 2003
BRITS CAPTURE CHEMICAL WEAPON COMPONENTS ! according to the Scotsman
Archive for March 25th, 2003
Tuesday, March 25th, 2003
EMPIREWATCH: I found Fareed Zakaria’s critique of the Bush administration diplomacy on Iraq – ” Arrogant Empire ” – to be more or less a venture in hairsplitting. No amount of sweet charm or handholding by Colin Powell will get another nation to react positively to an American challenge to it’s national interests though such finesse is helpful with tertiary and marginal disagreements.
France has staked all its chips upon becoming the leader of an anti-American adversarial bloc and Chirac sees forcing America to accept continuing and accelerated nuclear proliferation as key to a strategy of containing the hyperpowerful hegemon. Bush is bent upon rolling back the coming nuclear anarchy in the Third World starting with Iraq, Iran and North Korea. Nations that profit from proliferation – Russia and China- will be unhappy at their unsavory business dealings being revealed to the world. Diplomatic friction and Euro-pouting is a small price for securing major security objectives. It is also inevitable.
Tuesday, March 25th, 2003
SUPPORTING INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS IN ACADEMIA The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education has guides to protect Constitutional rights on college campuses. No tax-payer supported PC fascism on the quad allowed, boys.
Tuesday, March 25th, 2003
THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION plans to get things right in Iraq prior to letting in the UN bureaucrats who might undermine security or attempt to block necessary reforms of Iraq’s political system and delay the prosecution of war crimes until a cumbersome and dilatory Rwanda-style UN tribunal can be set up.
U.S. Is Assembling a Civilian Team to Run Iraq
By ELIZABETH BECKER
ASHINGTON, March 24 — The United States is preparing to establish immediate sole control of postwar Iraq, initially without recourse to the United Nations, with a civilian administration under the direct command of the military, according to senior administration officials.
Even before American troops reach Baghdad, administration officials are assembling a team of civilian officials, largely retired American diplomats, to run Iraq as soon as the fighting is over.
The administration has decided that helping the country and its people recover after the war will require a civilian corps in place working with the military as it tries to establish security throughout the country.
European and Asian diplomats, while offering to help rebuild Iraq, raised questions last week about American plans to administer postwar Iraq without a central role for the United Nations.
While the issue is debated at the United Nations and the European Union, the administration is going ahead with its plans for a civil peacekeeping operation under the direction of Jay Garner, the retired general who directs the Pentagon’s new Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance.
