Issues of Global Import

15 December 2003


Saddam Hussein Captured by US Military
If anyone was upset by the capture of Saddam Hussein last Saturday by American and allied forces, one couldn't hear any complaining. The supporters of Mr. Bush's war felt no small vindication, and the opponents of it could take solace in the fact that a mass murderer had been caught. But the talk of justice that filled the Sunday news programs was misleading -- the game of politics will determine the next several months. Click here to read on.

Time Exposes Iraqi Resistance
Whenever one gets to feeling like the Bush administration is in over its head in Iraq and has no clue what to do next, it is comforting to know that the opposition is even more in the dark. Time magazine managed to send some reporters inside a resistance cell in Iraq, and last week, the report on their activities made the cover. It is as if Hitler invited the Times and the Washington Post to Penemunde in 1943. The mind boggles at the sheer idiocy of it. Click here for more.

US and Allies Only in Reconstructing Iraq -- Sort Of
There must be a word in the English language to describe the sort of laughter that followed the reaction of "Old Europe" to the announcement by the White House that only those nations that fought in Iraq would be eligible for part of the reconstruction gravy train. France, Germany and Russia were all gravely disappointed as well as angry that their companies would not get to bid on the next $18.6 billion in contracts. One would think they were new to the game of international diplomacy. Click here to read why.