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Sent: 04 April 2003 15:50
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Subject: Warnings from History
As US forces are poised to take the Iraqi capital, vivid analysis of the war
from www.openDemocracy.net. Paul Hirst reviews the military options and
raises the spectre of Vietnam; Somali correspondent Harun Hassan reports on
parallels with the failed manhunt for Mohamed Farah Aidid in Mogadishu;
former Swedish premier Carl Bildt draws lessons from the Balkans; and Andre
Glucksmann turns to Dostoevsky for insights into Europe's complacency in the
face of nihilism.
Continuing columns: German columnist Michael Naumann remembers being bombed:
a moving, angry denunciation of violence as an instrument of power. Wendell
Steavenson's Tehran Diary is on the move again - this time taking tea in
Sulaimaniya with future citizens of a free Iraq.
Also, don't miss Kofi Annan's speech-writer Edward Mortimer's strong defence
of the UN, Shiromi Pinto's poignant return to Colombo, Ian Christie's
challenge to the EU's failure of vision, and Chris Darke on Michael
Winterbottom's In This World.
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American dilemmas
AMERICA GOES TO WAR
On America's East Coast as the war breaks out, openDemocracy's editor
ANTHONY BARNETT found that people are thinking seriously rather than waving
flags.
http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article-2-95-1124.jsp
A THIRTY-YEAR WAR
The US army's arrival at Baghdad brings the end of the Iraq war nearer, but
also heralds a wider conflict that will last a generation, says PAUL ROGERS.
http://www.opendemocracy.net/themes/article-2-1127.jsp
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Warnings from history
NOT (YET) AN ARABIAN TET
The 1968 Tet offensive in Vietnam is an awful warning to America that
military success can be a prelude to political disaster, argues PAUL HIRST.
http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article-2-95-1122.jsp
BLACK HAWK DOWN - THE BAGHDAD SEQUEL?
Could the urban escapology of Somali warlord Mohamed Farah Aidid in 1993
offer inspiration to Saddam? Somali journalist HARUN HASSAN reports.
http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article-2-95-1126.jsp
WAR IN THE RUINS OF LAW
Along with its terrified human victims, America's assault on Iraq buries
international law and morality under the rubble, says MICHAEL NAUMANN.
http://www.opendemocracy.net/themes/article-3-1125.jsp
EUROPE'S FUTURE IN THE BALKANS' MIRROR
History, responsibility, and humanity all make the Balkans the crucible of
Europe, says former Swedish prime minister CARL BILDT.
http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article-3-51-1123.jsp
FROM BIN LADEN TO DOSTOYEVSKY
Nobody wants war - but genocide is worse. The French philosopher ANDRE
GLUCKSMANN assails European complacency in face of nihilistic terror and
dictatorship.
http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article-2-95-1111.jsp
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In the Region
A LIGHT IN THE NORTH
The stories of Kurdish customers in a Sulaimaniya tea-house make WENDELL
STEAVENSON realise why they long for Saddam's overthrow.
http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article-2-95-1116.jsp
JORDAN: COPING WITH THE WAR NEXT DOOR
Jordan's ambassador to the UN discusses his country's humanitarian
preparations for war next door to ARTHUR HELTON and GIL LOESCHER.
http://www.opendemocracy.net/themes/article-2-1118.jsp
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Debates
A WAR LIKE NO OTHER
The zealous, unrestrained US ambition behind war in Iraq makes a
humanitarian perspective on law and conflict all the more urgent, argues
MARY KALDOR.
http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article-2-95-1106.jsp
IS THE UN OBSOLETE? A REPLY TO FRANK VIBERT
In tackling poverty, building security and advancing democracy, the UN has a
crucial role to play in the 21st century, says its senior official EDWARD
MORTIMER.
http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article-6-28-1117.jsp
WHAT EUROPE? WHOSE CENTURY? WHICH PROJECT?
Without a coherent vision able to win its people's allegiance, the EU will
wither, warns IAN CHRISTIE.
http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article-3-51-1113.jsp
MARRIED TO THE MOB
If you love capitalism, you have to help change it. DEBORAH DOANE of the New
Economics Foundation takes on Diane Coyle and John Micklethwait.
http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article-7-29-1121.jsp
DOUBLESPEAK: WESTERN MEDIA, MUSLIM MEDIA
The western and Muslim media are engaged in a dialogue of the deaf. Time to
wise up, challenges the founder of Q-News, FUAD NAHDI.
http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article-8-92-1119.jsp
THE UNDERSIDE OF GLOBALISATION
CHRIS DARKE finds grim topicality in Michael Winterbottom's prize-winning
film of Afghans on the road west, In this World.
http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article-1-67-1120.jsp
KOLAMBE
SHIROMI PINTO'S poignant story of a return to her Sri Lankan homeland torn
by civil war.
http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article-1-66-1115.jsp
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