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EDITORIAL |
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UN’s postwar role
What postwar role the White House will accept for the United Nations is becoming a significant factor in the growing gap between Europe and the United States.
As the comfortable victories of the American forces in their first walkover battles in Baghdad show that the occupation of Iraq's capital will prove much easier than expected, realism will impose a radical change of policy on France, Germany and Russia. |
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COMMENTARY |
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‘Liberation’ by occupation
They said it would be a «three-day war,» and it has already lasted three weeks. They said it would be a «surgical» strike so as not to affect non-combatants, and already about 1,500 Iraqi civilians have died, since the «smart» bombs cannot distinguish between a marketplace and a military target, an orphanage from a weapons emplacement. |
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OPINION |
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Political hijack
The anti-war movement - a spontaneous and widespread reaction of the people - has focused on the US and British-led assault on Iraq, and on the savagery that this war entails: the slaughter of innocent civilians (especially children) and the brutal treatment of prisoners of war. This the movement's common denominator, and because it is humanitarian in nature, it is also universal. This does not mean, however, that it carries no political weight - indeed, it is as politically significant as it is humane. |
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