VOL. XLV

No 50

16-December-2002

The Political Scene

US Secretary of State Colin Powell has announced a grandiose initiative to reform the Middle East economically, politically, educationally and even socially. The Iraqis have handed over their weapons declaration to the UN. And Iraqi leader Saddam Husains apology (of sorts) to Kuwait for the 1990 invasion appears to have done more harm than good to relations between the two countries.

Powell Announces Reform Initiative

The neoconservatives who...