Not just America's problem

Europe | Never mind the anti-war posturing: European governments, investigating and prosecuting terror suspects, are taking their war-on-terrorism responsibilities seriously | Mindy Belz

With the anniversary of terrorist attacks in the United States, it is dawning on Europeans that it's their war, too. And Old World hawks are rising. British defense secretary Geoff Hoon planned a 9/11 meeting in Washington with U.S. defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld. Journalists billed it as a "war summit" on Iraq. Conservatives in Britain crossed the aisle to support Prime Minister Tony Blair's call for "regime change" in Iraq. Ian Duncan Smith, leader of the Conservative Party, said Brits should be concerned about the direct threat Saddam Hussein poses to them rather than "superficial and misleading" debates about U.S. plans.

"Those who genuinely seek evidence in support of potential military action in Iraq will find there is plenty of it; those who oppose intervention at all costs will never find enough," wrote Mr. Smith in London's Sunday Times.

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September 14, 2002, Vol. 17, No. 35

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