These columns have long tried sympathetically to explain Mexican realities to our readers, but President Vicente Fox's U.N. war straddle will cost his country years of U.S. public goodwill.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Get on with it

The Navy's choice is clear: develop and acquire N-UCAS now, in a low risk, cost-effective manner, or make the false economy of cutting funding now and then developing N-UCAS as a high risk, crash program later.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Where are the carriers?

The telecommunications giant is off to a good start, launching a low-cost, Internet-based voice service called Connect 'N Save just last month.

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An unmanned aircraft like N-UCAS solves both these problems at once, providing a cost-effective capability that allows the carriers to find and attack terrorists and insurgents, and also to counter cruise and ballistic missile threats from a survivable distance.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Where are the carriers?

On Friday, the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti said the situation was tense in the southwestern town of Les Cayes a day after demonstrations over the rising cost of living there led to an attack against the U.N. office.

CNN: U.N. food agency seeks more aid for Haiti