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Robert Fisk
Osama Bin Laden has an awful lot of friends in Saudi Arabia. In the mosque, among the disenchanted youth, among the security forces, even - and this is what the West declines to discuss - within the royal family. Saudi ambassadors routinely dismiss these facts as “unfounded” but Saturday’s devastating attack in the capital, Riyadh, is part of a growing insurrection against Bin Laden’s enemies in the House of Saud.
Vijay Prashad
The recent unanimous vote at the United Nations Security Council, bestowing legitimacy on the USA occupation of Iraq, exposes the hollowness of the “unilateralism-multilateralism” debate. Such debates fail to acknowledge that the Bush administration already follows at least two multilateral approaches toward hegemony, neither of them good, and that to call its approach unilateral misses the real support it has among the world’s corrupt leaders.
William M Hardiker
Only now, is USA society emerging from a ?twilight reality? of misguided, fear, vulnerability and insecurity and a genuine bewilderment in relation to why do “they” hate us? The fact that a people are considered “they” as opposed to “us” is a fundamental contributing factor to the problem.
Karim El-Gawhary
Heavily armed with all manner of weaponry, and coupled with a deadly determination, the invisible opponents of the USA occupation have proven more persistent and determined than Washington expected. “They are occupiers, what else do they expect?” commented Hoda Nueimi, a political scientist at Baghdad University.
Jim Lobe
In what the White House billed as a major address, USA President Bush has announced that he has adopted a new policy called “a forward strategy of freedom in the Middle East”. The speech, which comes amid growing unease about the costs and duration of the USA occupation of Iraq, appeared designed to rally support by casting the occupation as part of an historic mission by Washington to spread liberty and democracy around the world.
Timothy J. Freeman
War, if ever justified, is supposed to be an absolute last resort. Whatever problem was posed by Saddam Hussein, it is now quite clear that there was still time, there still remained peaceful means of dealing with that problem. There is every indication that the Bush Administration, rather than doing everything in their power to avoid war and find a peaceful solution, did in fact everything in their power to avoid a peaceful solution and find a reason for war.
Thalif Deen
There is a clear indication that counter-terrorism measures have subsumed the spirit of Monterrey and dashed hopes for international cooperation on financing for development, and the prospects for the equitable and sustainable development of the South are bleak.
Uri Avnery
The Sharon goverment propaganda machine insists on telling the Israeli public that their soldiers killed by Palestinian resistance forces were “murdered”. These soldiers would have been surprised to learn that they were murdered. Perhaps they would have been insulted. After all, they were not helpless Jews in the ghetto who were killed during a pogrom by drunken Cossacks. They fell as soldiers in war.
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