Jan, Keith, Lawry et al: What does it mean to you that articles like this are appearing in the mainstream press? Also, did you see Henry Kissinger's piece relaying the history of the 1648 Treat of Westphalia, establishing "the principle of nonintervention in the domestic affairs of other states" to illustrate how revolutionary the Bush doctrine may be and why it is necessary (WMD)? His Eminence suggests that Europe will grudgingly support Bush, if at all, but that "the most interesting, and potentially fateful, reaction, may well be India's, which will be tempted to apply the new principle of pre-emption against akistan." - Karen
Beyond Baghdad: [PARA]Expanding Target List[PARA]Washington looks at overhauling the Islamic and Arab world[PARA][PARA][PARA][PARA]Iranian President Mohammed Khatami's efforts at reform have been hindered by the unelected mullahs who dominate public life By Roy Gutman and John Barry NEWSWEEK Aug. 19 issue - While still wrangling over how to overthrow Iraq's Saddam Hussein, the Bush administration is already looking for other targets. President Bush has called for the ouster of Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat. Now some in the administration-and allies at D.C. think tanks-are eyeing Iran and even Saudi Arabia. As one senior British official put it: "Everyone wants to go to Baghdad. Real men want to go to Tehran." ... Richard Perle, chairman of Bush's Defense Policy Board, recently invited a controversial French scholar to brief the outside advisers on "taking the Saudi out of Arabia." When word leaked to the press, the Bush administration strongly denied it wanted to oust the Saudi royal regime. Still, some insiders continue to whisper about the possibility. Syria and even Egypt are now under discussion in neoconservative circles, along with North Korea and Burma." ...Tony Blair, the only foreign leader who might join in a U.S.-led intervention in Iraq, is asking tough questions. "He wants to know a lot more about what the administration's real agenda is," says a top Blair aide. http://www.msnbc.com/news/792516.asp
