The political permutations being debated are as plentiful as minarets on the Istanbul skyline.
Problems that cannot be candidly described and vigorously debated are unlikely to be addressed seriously.
Many ardent advocates of intervention in Libya when U.N. Security Council Resolution 1973 was debated are now surprised that the operation has drawn out for this long.
Also still to be debated are the sanctions for breaking the law, which could include fines of up to 2 percent of a company's annual worldwide sales.
Such arguments, while much debated, are being taken to heart this campaign season by Democratic politicians in rural, low-wage, red-state America -- even as the focus of the Democratic presidential campaign of Senator John Kerry remains elsewhere, on middle-of-the-road voters in swing states.
Among the theoretical questions that have been much debated are issues such as whether mysticism constitutes the core or essence of personal religion or whether it is better viewed as one element interacting with others in the formation of concrete religions.
