The basic problem is policy, not public relations, said Yenni Zannuba Wahid, 28, who is the daughter of the nation's former president, Abdurrahman Wahid, and who has just returned from a year of graduate study at Harvard.
"There is no point in saying this is a problem of communication, blah blah blah," said Ms. Wahid after a videoconference on Thursday night with the advisory group on public diplomacy in the Arab and Muslim world. The panel is to report to the White House and Congress on Wednesday. "The perception in the Muslim world is that the problem is the policy towards the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Iraq."
Belgium's highest court threw out war crimes cases against George Bush and Ariel Sharon on Wednesday, citing the lack of a legal basis. The move will likely reduce diplomatic tensions between Brussels and Washington.
Report: Israel spends $560 million a year on Jewish settlements in territoriesBRUSSELS, Belgium -- A Belgian court Tuesday threw out a war crimes case against the general who led U.S. forces into Iraq, bringing nearer an end a saga that has hurt relations between Belgium and the United States.
An appeals court in Brussels ruled that the case against now-retired Gen. Tommy Franks was inadmissible because none of the 19 Iraqi plaintiffs lived in Belgium, the federal public prosecutor's office said.
Democratic Hawk Urges Firing of Bush Iraq AidesBombing, sanctions, looting and sabotage have kept Iraq in the dark. It will take at least $10bn and three years to restore the power supply.
Is George Bush the most dangerous president in U.S. history?
If you ask Professor John Swomley, he is.
Indefinite delay on weapons report (The Advertiser, 15 September 2003) Robert Fisk: Powell's Baghdad Briefing Ignores High Price of Failure Rich-Poor Rift Triggers Collapse of Trade Talks Cheney Hints U.S. to Need More Iraq Funds George Lakoff: Betrayal of Trust Indefinite delay on weapons report"The U.S. government can no longer promise that individuals under its authority will be subject to a system bound by the rule of law," according to the report by the New York-based Lawyers Committee for Human Rights (LCHR). "In a growing number of cases, legal safeguards are now observed only so far as they are consistent with the chosen ends of power."
Nobel Laureate Isidor Isaac Rabi said, ``I do really feel it would have been a better world without Teller.... I think he is an enemy of humanity.''
How the Bush Administration's Opposition to the International Criminal Court Has Put Peacekeepers and Others in Danger 'US attracted al-Qaeda to Iraq' Presidential Character 78% of Bush's Postwar Spending Plan Is for Military 12-Year-Old Sued for Music DownloadingThe face of Antarctica will change in the next 100 years as ice melts, glaciers retreat, penguins move south and green plants begin to colonise bare rocks of the Antarctic peninsula, researchers warned yesterday.
"We know parts of Antarctica are warming, and they are warming very rapidly," Andrew Clarke of the British Antarctic Survey told the British Association festival.
"The Antarctic Peninsula is one of three points on the globe that is warming particularly quickly at the moment."
"I got really scared. My stomach is all turning," Brianna said last night at the city Housing Authority apartment where she lives with her mom and her 9-year-old brother.
"I thought it was OK to download music because my mom paid a service fee for it. Out of all people, why did they pick me?"
Kofi Annan préconise une "réforme radicale" pour sauver l'ONU Bush aides admit Iraq misstepsSantiago dreaming E.P.A. in the Cross Hairs Rumsfeld Is Muted On Weapons Hunt: Secretary Tries to Avoid Issue During TripUsing language as a marketing tool, Bush has turned fear into propaganda. It's a winning formula that allowed him to mesmerize the nation after Sept. 11, making himself politically invulnerable, while turning his political enemies into enemies of the state.
For the second 9/11 anniversary and beyond, we basically have two choices. We can march forward with confidence that the global enforcer will drive evil from the world, much as the president's speechwriters declare, plagiarizing ancient epics and children's tales.
Or we can subject the doctrines of the proclaimed grand new era to scrutiny, drawing rational conclusions, perhaps gaining some sense of the emerging reality.
Thus was a long and high-stakes bureaucratic struggle resolved, with the combined clout of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the State Department persuading a reluctant White House that the administration's Iraq occupation policy, devised by Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, simply was not working.
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