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May 2, 2003 8:15 a.m. Geriatric Teenagers: The Paris-Berlin-Moscow axis needs some tough love. Victor Davis Hanson Imagine a continent that collectively budgets very little on its own defense, instead finding protection in a distant and democratic superpower that pays rent for the privilege of basing troops, planes, and ships to stop hooligans — sometimes, as in the case of an embarrassingly impolite Mr. Milosevic, right on Europe’s doorstop. In return, many European elites ridicule American values, naïveté, and insularity — even as their countries have raked in billions of American dollars in trade surpluses and tourism from mostly oblivious,...

http://www.moscowtimes.ru/stories/2003/04/25/006.html The Moscow Times Friday, Apr. 25, 2003. Page 8 Some Lessons From the Iraqi Crisis By Sergei Karaganov To Our Readers The Iraqi crisis is not over. Ahead lie unexpected twists and turns, and unpleasant surprises for many of the parties involved. However, in essence, it has ended in victory for the military force and behind-the-scenes diplomacy of the United States, together with Britain and their allies. We could continue ad infinitum the unproductive discussions about why the apparently organized Iraqi defense crumbled so soon, or the completely futile debates about why we dislike the United States and its...

Illicit Arms Kept Till Eve of War, an Iraqi Scientist Is Said to Assert By JUDITH MILLER [W] ITH THE 101ST AIRBORNE DIVISION, south of Baghdad, Iraq, April 20 ? A scientist who claims to have worked in Iraq's chemical weapons program for more than a decade has told an American military team that Iraq destroyed chemical weapons and biological warfare equipment only days before the war began, members of the team said. They said the scientist led Americans to a supply of material that proved to be the building blocks of illegal weapons, which he claimed to have buried...