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War in the Ruins of Diplomacy

March 18, 2003
The morning after US President George W. Bush issued an ultimatum for Saddam Hussein and his family to leave Iraq or face war, this editorial in The New York Times argues that the Bush administration has brought the US to the brink of war with Iraq by its own failings. It says that the US "now stands at a decisive turning point, not just in regard to the Iraq crisis, but in how it means to...

The Right War for the Right Reasons

John McCain March 12, 2003
Although it is uncertain whether the United Nations Security Council will authorize American and British armed forces to disarm Iraq and remove Saddam Hussein, Senator John McCain firmly endorses this potential war, and praises it as an act of justice. He dismisses most critics’ claims that nonviolent options have not been exhausted by citing the UN's failure to disarm Iraq using nonviolent...

US Abstains in the War on Tobacco

Derrick Z. Jackson March 10, 2003
Hippocrates vs. hypocrites? Bush’s government ignores “the Hippocratic Oath: Do No Harm”, says columnist Derrick Z. Jackson. The US has already signaled objections to the ‘Framework Convention on Tobacco Control,’ a recent U.N endorsed global treaty that is hoped will stop tobacco from killing 10 million people a year by 2030. Almost everything in the treaty – from state funded anti-tobacco...

Just War – or a Just War?

Jimmy Carter March 9, 2003
As the question of Iraq looms over Washington, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter expresses his concerns with America’s current abandonment of premises of religious principles, respect for international law, and wise alliances, upon which sound foreign policy is based. Mr. Carter outlines the preconditions for a just war with Iraq, including the exhaustion of nonviolent options, avoidance of all...

Excluding Taiwan from the World’s View

Daniel Lynch March 3, 2003
Taiwan, though still unrecognized as a state internationally, has achieved economic success and democracy as other Asian countries have floundered. Yet China continues to talk of recovering Taiwan, and the UN will not use the country’s name. Daniel Lynch attributes this to China’s international wealth and power and the world’s acquiescence to the Chinese government’s bullying. He calls on the...

Massive MMA Rally Flays Iraq War

Tahir Hasan Khan March 3, 2003
When Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf agreed to cooperate with the United States to root out terrorists after the attacks of September 11, 2001, he alienated many conservative Pakistani Muslims. As the UN Security Council considers a second resolution about war in Iraq, Musharraf once again faces heat from Islamic groups at home. In a rally in Karachi that organizers called a “Million March...

Summit Challenges

Ibrahim Nafie February 28, 2003
This opinion article in Egypt's Al-Ahram weekly says that the upcoming Arab summit must address two pressing issues: the impending war in Iraq and the plight of the Palestinians. The first issue requires a concerted effort on the part of Arab regimes to convince Saddam Hussein to comply with the weapons inspections to stave a war in the region. Solving the second issue, the plight of the...