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2003-Mar-27 ![[this day]](http://radio.weblogs.com/0103811/images/dailyLinkIcon.gif)
People who lived in slavery for 50 years
Condoleeza Rice (WSJ):
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The world has seen what happens when countries that recognize emerging or present threats lack the will to meet them. Many times in the last century--and as recently as the last decade--the world failed to act in time to prevent a crisis or meet a threat. Some of the members of this current coalition had to live with the deadly and dreadful consequences of that failure for decades. Some have only recently emerged from tyrannies imposed in no small part because of that failure. Months ago, the prime minister of Estonia told President Bush that he did not need an explanation of the need to confront Iraq. Because the great democracies failed to act in 1930s, his people lived in slavery for 50 years.
China sharply raises death toll from SARS
International Herald Tribune:
Chinese health officials Wednesday dramatically increased their estimates of the number of cases and deaths in China caused by a new mystery pneumonia that international health officials believe originated here late last year. Officials in Guangdong Province, the center of China's epidemic, reporting an estimated 792 cases and 31 deaths as of the end of February, a rise from the 305 case and 5 deaths they had previously reported.Moving from their previous 1 in 60 death rate (1.7%) to a very alarming 1 in 25 (4%). Chinese authorities are still refusing to reveal the number of cases in March.
France, Germany, and the Turkish 'No'
Michael Ledeen (The New York Sun):
Everybody knows that Turkey did not permit America to stage operations from Turkish bases, but hardly anybody realizes that, contrary to the conventional wisdom, the vote was not an Islamic protest against the American-led coalition, but an act of anti-American intimidation by France and Germany. ... Primary blame for the defeat of the measure lies with the opposition — the secular, Kemalist parties that have governed the country since Ataturk. Contrary to expectations, the opposition, responding to orders from party leaders, voted unanimously against the government's position. The leaders insisted on a disciplined "no" vote because of pressure — some would call it blackmail — from France and Germany. The French and German governments informed the Turkish opposition parties that if they voted to help the Coalition war effort, Turkey would be locked out of Europe for a generation.