Policy Review articles from October 2003

Policy Review archives from October 2003

Kim Jong Il must go.(North Korea)
October 1, 2003... NORTH KOREA'S nuclear-weapons programs confront us with hard choices. They create a sense of urgency to make another deal with the North, but experience tells us that any new agreement will not the flow of crises. However we handle the...

Anti-Semitism and ethnicity in Europe.
October 1, 2003... "SAY THAT YOU'RE a Jew," Marinus Schoberl's tormentors are supposed to have demanded as they beat him. As of this writing, three young men--the brothers MarcelS. and Marco S., 18 and 24 years old respectively, and their friend Sebastien F.,...

Religious faith and charitable giving.
October 1, 2003... There is a time when a Christian must sell all and give to the poor, as they did in the Apostles times. There is a time allsoe when Christians (though they give not all yet) must give beyond their abillity, as they of Macedonia, Cor. 2, 6....

Taking proliferation seriously.
October 1, 2003... WITH AMERICA'S departure from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty late in 2002, Bush officials have claimed that America has begun to lead the world away from security policies based on mutual assured destruction (MAD). The administrations...

Mosque and state in Iraq.
October 1, 2003... THE UNITED STATES, in Iraq and elsewhere, should cease promoting a secular civil society as the only alternative to a Taliban-like Shia theocracy. We cannot quell the religious yearnings of millions of Iraqis (and many others elsewhere) merely...

Pride and resentment.(Jean-Francois Revel, L'Obsession anti-americaine: Son fonctionnement, ses causes, ses inconsequences)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... JEAN-FRANCOIS REVEL. L'Obsession anti-americaine: Son fonctionnement, ses causes, ses inconsequences (The Anti-American Obsession: How It Operates, Its Causes, and Its Lack of Consequence). PLON. 299 PAGES. 20.00 [euro] IF YOU BELIEVED CNN...

Iran's fragile fault lines.(Answering Only to God: Faith and Freedom in Twenty-First-Century Iran)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... GENEIVE ABDO AND JONATHAN LYONS. Answering Only to God: Faith and Freedom in Twenty-First-Century Iran. HENRY HOLT & CO. 320 PAGES. $25.00 THE WAR IN Iraq has been both a blessing and a curse for neighboring Iran. On the one hand, the...

Terrorism as war.(No End to War: Terrorism in the Twenty-First Century)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... WALTER LAQUEUR. No End to War: Terrorism in the Twenty-First Century. CONTINUUM BOOKS. 288 PAGES. $24.95 IN THE COURSE of CNN'S commercial-free week of coverage following the September 11, 2001, attacks, the network's dramatic banner...

Present arms.(The Mission: Waging War and Keeping Peace with America's Military)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... DANA PRIEST. The Mission: Waging War and Keeping Peace with America's Military. W.W. NORTON & COMPANY. 4z9 PAGES. $26.95 IN THIS engaging book, Dana Priest, a reporter for the Washington Post, explores how the American military unexpectedly...