Volume 51, Number 5 · March 25, 2004
Hidden Truths
By Brian Urquhart
Disarming Iraq
by Hans Blix
Pantheon, 285 pp., $24.00
The Report of the Inquiry into the Circumstances Surrounding the Death of Dr. David Kelly, CMG
by Lord Hutton
Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 740 pp., £70.00
The first four years of the twenty-first century have produced enough strange and unsettling developments to haunt a far longer period. They include the September 11 attacks and widespread terrorism by suicide bombing; the descent into savage despair of that wellspring of hatred and violence, the Israeli–Palestinian problem; the opening of a dangerous gulf of misunderstanding between the United States and much of the rest of the world; the growing, and terrifying, threat of nuclear proliferation; and the proclamation by the United States of the policy of preventive and preemptive war and at least one questionable experiment with it. The relative optimism that attended the beginning of the century has largely evaporated.
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