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Tomislav Nikolic said that the armed defense must be the last resort, should the future Kosovo status talks produce independence for the province. ;We have already had a chance to defend Kosovo against much stronger enemies”, Nikolić said in an interview with the Serbian state television (RTS), stressing that armed defense is the last option and that diplomacy must be given every chance. Nikolić said that the Radicals will take it to the streets and lead the citizens against the Serbian prime minister and president, Boris Tadić and Vojislav Koštunica, should they fail to start with preparations to return Kosovo...

Politicians and much of the media in Britain are engaged in a familiar Western practice after a terrorist attack. They think they can explain it using Western standards. ... Sometimes it takes an outsider to bring people to their senses. Former Israeli Prime Minister (and current Cabinet minister) Benjamin Netanyahu told BBC's "Breakfast" program Sunday that Iraq and other actions by Britain and America are the consequences of terror attacks, not the cause. He said to blame Britain and the United States for causing terrorism is "reverse causality." Mr. Netanyahu recalled the numerous terror attacks before the Iraq war and...

Twaddle from the Axis of Nevilleby Austin BayNovember 19, 2003 Discussion Board on this On Point topicAngry Euro-protestors attacking an American warmonger president? Yawn. In the American idiom, "Been there, done that." Translation for Euro-sophisticates: "Passe, pal." It's 2003, and the president is George W. Bush, but the teeth-gnashing rhetoric is right of out 1983 and the "Euro-missile protests" against Ronald Reagan. This month is the 20th anniversary of the Great Euromissile Crisis. Oh, the accusations! Reagan was stupid. Reagan was dangerous, a warmonger seeking the nuclear destruction of the USSR. Reagan was -- good heavens -- a unilateralist. Today,...

<p>WASHINGTON -- As President Bush begins a week of foreign diplomacy, national security adviser Condoleezza Rice insists that he will one day rank alongside such towering pillars of 20th century statecraft as President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.</p>

Poland 'will keep troops in Iraq even if attacked'By Kate Connolly in Warsaw (Filed: 19/03/2004) Poland will keep its troops in Iraq even if Islamist militants mounted a wave of terrorist attacks on its streets, a senior minister told the Telegraph yesterday. Poland, the third largest troop contributor to the Iraq force, would not change its policy to "suit the terrorists", said Jozef Oleksy, the interior minister. He said the attacks in Madrid last week had strengthened Poland's resolve to maintain a presence in Iraq "for as long as necessary". Mr Oleksy, a social democrat who was prime minister in...