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In his interview with the Monitor, Howard Dean repeated his contention that Saddam Hussein's recent capture had made America no safer. "My opponents spent the week criticizing me for that, which I think was to their detriment" since the federal government had just increased the terror alert level to orange, indicating an elevated risk of an attack. But he said two other recent events had benefited national security: the capture of a ship loaded with drugs in the Persian Gulf - "which is almost certainly how al-Qaida is partly financing their operations," Dean said - and Libya's decision to declare...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Secretary of State Colin Powell stepped up the Bush administration's attack on the Iranian government on Monday, saying that "hidebound clerics" had dragged Islam into "the political gutter." Powell, following up on President Bush's speech on democracy in the Middle East last Thursday, mixed criticism of Iran with encouragement for conservative Arab monarchies that cooperate with U.S. policy. "The Iranian people want their freedom back," he told an audience at his alma mater, City College of New York. "They do not want to banish Islam from their lives. Far from it. They want to be free...

There is scarcely a calamity, an injustice, or an act of outright barbarism occurring anywhere on earth, that Leftists cannot somehow trace to the doorstep of the United States. In their view, all attacks against our country are understandable, if not laudable, retaliatory strikes against an aggressive, arrogant nation that has too often tried to bully the rest of the world. Conversely, any American response – be it with military or law-enforcement measures – is seen as a form of aggression that will only provoke further anti-Americanism and thereby perpetuate "the cycle of violence." A leading proponent of this view...

What’s worse than a hawk? A dove Mick Hume says that the arguments against a war with Iraq are even more pathetic than those for it Exactly which planet is Donald Rumsfeld on? The question occurred to me after I was sent a tape of a little-publicised broadcast from the American radio station NPR News. It records the US defense secretary replying to questions on Iraq by hypothesising about a pre-emptive strike against ...the Man in the Moon. ‘And of course,’ says Washington’s military hard man, ‘the advantage of not acting against the Moon would be that no one could...