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P A G E 0 N E / F R A N C E THE (FAR) RIGHT STUFF Can a sputtering economy and fears of ISIS 1 France's Marine Le Pen into the Elysée Palace? THE TOWN Of Caumont-Sur-Durance in south- ern France was qulet on a recent Saturday night. shops were closed, the streets were empty, and a few elderly men sat sipping beers at the local bar, scratching at lottery cards or placing bets on the horse race on television. But inside the town hall, where a meeting for the far-right National Front party had just finished, the atmosphere was euphoric. Marine gets me shaking, ” said Monique Zaouchkevitch 0f the party 's charis- matic leader, Marine Le pen. A former president ofthe Red Cross in the nearby town ofCavaillon, Zaouchkevitch had never followed politics until she heard Le pen speak. "The people 0f France have been forgotten, she said. 'But Marine, she's close t0 the people ・ Nearby, Jean Truffen, an 80-year-01d army veteran, was proudly showing offhis collection 0f National Front membership cards, all featuring Le pen's smiling face. l'm not ashamed. I voted for Jean-Marie. NOW, l'm voting for Marine," he said, referring t0 Le Pen s father, wh0 ran the party until 2011 My future is behind me, but l'm voting for the future ofFrance. The energy around Le Pen is palpabl% partic- ularly in France s southeast. Some supporters are hesitant, at first, tO admit they are voting for a party with a reputation for xenophobia. Anita, wh0 was packing up her store at a Sunday mar- ket in the town 0fSorgues, wouldn't give her last name, afraid that if people knew which candi- date she'd chosen, it could hurt her business. l'm voting for Marine," she said. On April 23 , that enthusiasm got Le Pen 21.4 percent 0fthe vote, enough t0 qualify for a runoff on May 7. Her strong showing marked the first time since World War II that neither France s center-right nor its socialist left advanced tO the second round Of a presidential election. This remarkable shift has set up a battle for not only the future Of France but the future Of Europe as well. The favorite, Emmanuel Macron, is a hope- and- change centrist wh0 inspire s the kind 0f youthful energy that got Barack Obama elected: A committed globalist, Macron wants the coun- try tO remain in the European Union and pledges t0 be "the president ofall French people. " Le pen, on the Other hand, is a nationalist whO vows t0 fight globalization, close 0ffthe country's borders and take France out ofthe EU. Macron s lead is substantial, but Le pen's base is energized, and as the French economy continues tO sputter and fears oflslamist militants grow, it may be t00 soon tO discount her chances—especially after the shocking victories Of Donald Trump in the U. S. and the Brexit campalgn in Great Britain. Marine Le pen has by far the most stable and committed support base, ” says James Shields, a professor Of French politics at Birmingham's Aston University. Her challenge now will be t0 build a grand coalition from supporters ofelim- inated candidates. BY OSCAR LOPEZ 当 @oscarlopezgib NEWSWEEK 26 MAY05, 2017

We're heading towards a catastrophe," she SO far, those candidates—Socialist Benoit Hamon and Republican Franf0is Fillon—have says. Unemployment is high. The taxes are Just crazy. Our country isn't safe. " perriaux, 63 , used rallied around Macron, wh0 capitalized on the country's frustration with the status quo. A for- tO support the center-right Republicans, but mer economy minister under president Frangois after years Of rising living costs and attacks in France by lslamist militant groups, she decided H011ande, he broke away to form his own politi- it was time tO vote for someone different. With cal movement, En Marche! ()n the Move!), and defines himselfas neither right nor left. "The two Marine, she says, we have the chance tO political parties that have governed France for change things ・ years have been discarded," he said in a speech perriaux's Shift has become common ln France. "There's been a progresslon Of the.. on April 23. Polls show him defeating Le Pen by [party's] vote amongst people wh0 used t0 vote over 20 POintS in the second round, a far Wider on the right and whO now VOte for the National gap than Trump or the Brexit campaign ever had Front, says Christéle Marchand-Lagier, a polit- t0 face.When you factor in the widespread dis- ical scientist at the University ofAvignon. "The like for the National Front among most French VOters, Macron S ViCtory seems almost assured. But Shields says Le Pen could also benefit from the collapse 0f the traditional left-right divide, pitting he r prote ctionist econonuc agenda "THE PEOPLE OF and hard-right stance on immigration against FRANCE HAVE BEEN Macron's liberal, globalist message ・ A social appe al t0 the right and an economic appe al t0 FORGOTTEN. BUT the left is what Le Pen hopes would be a winmng MARINE, SHE'S CLOSE formula against Macron," he says. TO THE PEOPLE. ” ln the National Front stronghold Of Le Pontet, in the country s southeast, such a message has been very convmcing for Domimque perriaux. TELL 灯 TO MARINE: PoIls indicate that Le Pen trails Macron by a large margin headed into the final round of France's presiden- tial election. But some observers aren't counting her out just yet. NEWSWEEK 27 MAY05 , 2017

HE BATTERIES OF North Korean artillery lie on just the other side Of the divided peninsula's demilitarized zone. There are thou- sands Of them—some hidden, Others out in the open. ArtiIlery shells are stored in an elaborate network 0f tun- nels; and though much 0f the weaponry and ammunition is old, し S. forces stationed in South Korea have no doubt they would be effective. Less than 40 miles to the south is the sprawling city 0f Seoul, the capital Of South Korea, with a metropolitan area Of 24 million inhabitants. Ever smce a cease-fire ended hostilities between North and South Korea in 1953 , the res- idents of Seoul have lived with the knowledge that a war with their brethren in the north could break out again; it iS a notion not Often acknowl- edged but embedded in their DNA. And now, again, the fraught Korean Penin- sula seems a single miscalculation away from calamity. Since his election, President Donald Trump and his foreign policy team have esca- lated their rhetoric about the North, insisting that U. S. patlence with North Korea's nuclear and missile program has run out. Pyong- △ yang has responded W1th rhetoric even more bellicose than usual. On April 20 , a state-owned newspaper threatened that Pyongyang would deliver a super-mighty pre-emptive strike ” against the U. S. , whose forces were in the midst Of masslve military exerclses with their South Korean ally. No one Seoul is heading for the bomb shelters yet. Prag- matism, and an abiding assumption that nothing terribly bad will actually happen, prevails. "NO matter how much ten- SIOns mcrease, we Just go about our lives," says park Chung Hee, a 40-year-01d businessman whose grandfather was killed in the Korean War. "What else can we do But everyone living on the peninsula knows that those North Korean artillery battenes are there to pummel Seoul if another war breaks out. And that ifit does, Seoul will get hit, and hit hard. The amount of time from the instant a shell is fired t0 mpact ⅲ the South Korean capital?Just 45 seconds. U. S. alarm about North Korea has spiked for two main reasons. The first is the aggresslve missile-testing reglmen N E W S W E E K 36 pyongyang has carried out under Kim Jong l-Jn. During his four-year reign, pyongyang has already test-fired 66 mis- siles, more than twice as many as his father, Kim Jong ll, did during his 17 years in 0 伍 ce. Kim's regime has gradu- ally increased the range Ofits missiles. Combine that with North Korea's efforts tO miniatunze itS nuclear arsenal SO that its 10 tO 16 bombs can fit ontO a warhead, and you have tWO streams coming together—range and miniatur- lzatlon—that you don't want tO cross, says retired Admi- ral James Stavridis, now dean 0f the FIetcher Sch001 of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. Some U. S. commanders fear the North can already put a nuclear warhead on a missile. Admiral Bill Gortney, head 0f the North American Aerospace Command, told Congress tWO years ago that he believes pyongyang can use a medi- um-range missile tO deliver a nuclear payload, me aning it can hit South Korea or Japan. The consensus intelligence estimate is that the North is now 18 tO 36 months away from sticking a nuke on a missile that can reach LOS Angeles. AII that explains why, from both current and former mil- itary offcials, there has been increasing talk 0f pre-emp- tion. ln November 2016 , GeneraI Walter Sharp, former commander Of し S. Forces Korea, said that ifNorth Korea puts a long-range missile on a launch pad and the U. S. is unsure 0fits payload,Washington should order a pre-emp- tive attack tO destroy that missile. But the grim reality is that a pre-emptive strike, agalnst North Korean missiles or nuclear facilities—or both— could well mean war. Should the day come when Trump The estimate is that the North is 18 to 36 months away from sticking a nuke on a missile that can reach LOS Angeles. believes he needs tO order a pre-emptlve strike against targets in North Korea tO eliminate a direct threat, the し S will not be able to take out all ofthe North Korean artillery front-loaded near the border. NOt," says former National S e curity Council staffer Vic- tor Cha, "without using tactical nuclear weapons," which is not something the U. S. would consider, given that Seoul is right down the road. A U. S. strike, simply put, could well trigger the second Korean War. WHAT WOULD another armed conflict on the peninsula lOOk like? During the Korean War, which lasted from 1950 t01953 , some 2.7 million Koreans died, along with 33 , 000 Americans and 800 , 000 Chinese. ln any pre-emption scenano now, the し S. would try to keep the strike limited to the task at hand; at the same time, Washington would signal ⅲ any way it could—probably via the North's ally in Beijing—that it did not seek a wider war. M AY 0 5 , 2 017

- ィを第三一 十 SMOKE ON THE WATER: A North Korean missile launch from 2016- Pyongyang's aggressive testing has alarmed the Trump administration. Of his own: tO complete an invasion Of South Korea W1thin a week using asymmetnc capabilities (including nuclear weapons and missiles). Reunification Of the two Koreas under Pyongyang s rule, as ludicrous as that possibility seems tO the outside world, has always been the foremost goal ofboth Kim and his father. For a while, in the wake ofthe famine in the late 1990S that killed tens ofthousands 0f North Koreans and the deep, relentless poverty that followed, military strat- egists began t0 discount that possibility, believing it t0 be rhetoric unmoored from reality. AII you had t0 d0 was look at the satellite images 0f Seoul and Pyongyang at night, one brightly lit and the other dark, t0 see which half 0f Korea was strong and WhiCh was weak. And although the economic disparity hasn't changed much, the North's weaponry has, its war plan has, and its dictator's bellicose rhetoric has. The young man known in china as "Fatty Kim the Third" (Kim Jong Un is the randson Of Kim Ⅱ Sung wh0 was the su reme leader of the Democratic People's RepubIic of Korea (DPRK) from its founding in 1948 until 1994 ) appears t0 be seri- about leading a nuclear power. ln speechesy he men- tlons the reunification far more Often than his father did, North Korea watchers say. lfthe U. S. launches a pre-emp- tive strike, Kim appears likely tO hit back, starting with an artillery b arrage—thous and s 0f rounds pewhour ・一・・ー-ーー。一ー。ー一ー~ーー一 Without movlng a single soldier in its million-man rmy,%aysformer CIA analyst BruceKlingner, now at the For the past two years, the U. S. and South Korea have been practicing pre-emption exerclses. ln 2015 , they adopted a new war plan, OPLAN 5015 , that includes attacks on the North's nuclear and missile facilities, as well as decapitation attacks" against Kim Jong Un and the rest Of the North Korean le adership. South Korea also developed its own pre-emptive attack plans and has acquired, U. S. and Korean offcials say, weapons capable Of destroying some 0f North Korea's weapons Of mass destruction. ln addition, Seoul has built an elaborate defense system, which includes the recent delivery of the U. S. terminal high altitude area defense system, which shOOts down incoming missiles in the final phase oftheir descent. The U. S. does not want to have to pre-empt, ofcourse. As Trump s national security adviser, H. R. McMaster, said on t0 dissuade the North from deploying nukes on long-range missiles. "NO one is lOOking for a fight here, ” insists another ¯Trump adviserøwhowasnotauthoriz ed to spe ak about this matter on the record. Whether it does will come down tO how Kim reacts tO the pressure now being put on him by the West. The し S. knows relatively littleabouttheyoungnan s psyche and stability, but what it does know lsn't encouraging. ln addition tO his ggressivemissiletestingprogramsl<imhasanewwarpl 37 N E W S W E E K M A Y 0 5 . 2 017

P A F R A N C E R E L I G 1 0 N 工 S L A N D S N R U S S 工 A D R U G S SPYTALK AL-QAEDA KILLING THE NEXT BIN LADEN lnside America's hunt to take out Ayman al-Zawahiri, the elusive leader of Al-Qaeda HE HAS BEEN the forgotten man in the West's de sp e rate c amp aign tO obliterate the lslamic State militant group (ISIS). He didn't even merit a cameo in the celebratory coverage Of Osama bin Laden's death at the hands of し S. Navy SEALs in 2011. For several years, he has been described as the leader ofa spent force. Yet Ayman aI-Zawahiri, bin Laden's mentor and successor, remams a key player in an attack threat tO America that retired Marine Corps GeneralJohn Kelly, the し S. homeland security secretary, says is worse tOday than what we experienced 16 years ago on 9 / 11. ” And if 0 伍 - cials in the Donald Trump administration have their way, al-Zawahiri's name Will soon be as familiar tO the world as bin Laden's once was. The White House signaled a tougher new appro ach tO eliminating al-Zawahiri and his mil- itant allies in early ApriI with the appointment of Lisa Curtis to head the south Asia desk for the NationaI Security Council. A well-known former CIA analyst, congressional staffer and foreign policy hawk in Washington, D. C. 's think tank circtllt, Curtis caused a stir in February when she co-authored a piece arguing that the U. S. "should … hold Pakistan accountable for the activitie s Of all terrorist groups on its s Oil. ” Pakistan s Inter-Service s lntelligence agency (ISI) has b een protecting the Egyptian-born al- Zawahiri, a trained surgeon, since し S. forces evicted Al-Qaeda from Afghanistan ⅲ late 2001 , several authoritative sources tell Ⅳビルた . His most likely location today, they say: Karachi, a teemmg port city 0f26 million on the Arabian Sea. Like everything about his location, there's no posifive proo says Bruce Riedel, a 30-year CIA veteran whO was the top adviser on South Asia and the MiddIe East for the past four し S. presi- dents. "There are pretty good indications, includ- ing some 0f the material found ⅲ Abbottabad, where bin Laden was slain, 'that point in that direction," he adds. "This would be a logical place to hide out, where he would feel pretty comfort- able that the Americans can t come and get him. E I S R A E L Ⅳ耘ん rvrtmg り N00 。。。 k 当 @SpyTalker 」 EFF STEIN BY N E W S W E E K 12 M A Y 0 5 , 2 017

against DPRK artillery, aerial bombardments and in an urban warfare environment polluted by 5 , 000 metric tons of DPRK chemical agents. Even if that artillery barrage and push int0 the South gave the North the initiative, there is no question, military planners all say, wh0 would ultimately prevail in a second Korean War. The U. S. and South Korea have far t00 much firepower, and if Kim decided to go to war, that would be the end Ofhis reglme, whether he knows it or not. Heritage Foundation, "the North could launch a devastat- ing attack on Seoul. WouId the two sides be able to de-escalate at that point? A senior North Korean military defector has said that under Kim s new war plan, the North intends tO try t0 occupy all 0f South Korea before significant し S. rein- forcements could flow in from Japan and elsewhere. This lnvaslon could start, Cha wrote in his recent bOOk, T ん ー襯 2 わ S , by terrorizing the South Korean popula- tion with chemical weapons. An arsenal Of 600 chemically armed Scud missiles would be fired on all South Korean airports, train stations and manne ports, making it 11 POS - Sible for civilians tO escape. The North's arsenal of medium-range mis- siles could also be fitted with chemical war- heads and launched at Japan, delaying the flow of U. S. reinforcements. And those reln- forcements would be urgently needed on the Korean Peninsula, since the し S. has only 28 , 000 troops ln south Korea, and the South's armed forces, though far better trained and eqmpped than the North's, consist 0f 660 , 000 men, more than 300 , 000 smaller than the North's. U. S. war planners believe North Korean forces would tO try tO overrun South Korea's defenses and get tO Seoul before the U. S. and the South could respond with over- whelming force. As Cha says, As wars go, this would be the most unforgiving battle conditions that can be imag- ined—an extremely high density of enemy and allied forces—over 2 million mechanized forces all converg- ing on a tOtal battlespace the equivalent Of the distance between Washington, D. C. , and BOSton. The United States would immediately dispatch four to Six ground combat divisions Of up tO 20 , 000 troops each, 10 Air Force wmgs Of about 20 fighters per unit and four tO five aircraft carrlers. ln Cha's scenario, し S. and South Korean "soldiers would be fighting with little defense "Without movin a single SOldier in itS mhlon-man army, the North could launch a devastating attack on SeouI." 0 But this would not be a one-week walkover, like the first Gulf War against Saddam Hussein, when his forces were arrayed like clay pigeons in the lraqi and Kuwaiti deserts, where they were easily destroyed by し S. air power. Con- ventional thinking in the Pentagon is that it would be a four- tO six-month conflict with high-intensity combat and many dead. ln 1994 , when President Bill Clinton contem- plated the use of force to knock out the North's nuclear weapons program, the then-commander 0fU. S. -Republic of Korea forces, Gary Luck, told his commander in chief that a war on the peninsula would likely result in 1 million dead and nearly $ 1 trillion ofeconomic damage ・ The carnage would conceivably be worse no 、 glven that the U. S. believes Pyongyang has 10 t0 16 nuclear weapons. If the North could figure out a way t0 deliver one, why wouldn't Kim go all in? HAS THE messagmg SO far fror れ the Trump administra- tion regarding North Korea made war more or less likely? Trump was sobered by the Obama administration s coun- sel that things with North Korea were becoming more dangerous. He initiated a comprehensive policy review shortly after taking offce, which led to press reports that all options ” were on the table (including use 0f force) in dealing with North Korea. T00 much may have been made ofthat, given that, in any formal review, all aspects 0fP01- ICY are scrutinized. When President-elect Trump was told North Korea had claimed it had reached the "final stage 0f preparations tO test-launch an intercontinental ballistic missile, ” he tweeted, "lt won't happen. " Kellyanne Conway, counselor tO the president, explained that Trump had sent a "clear warning tO North Korea and put Pyongyang on notice. She added that "the president of the United States will stand between them and missile capabilities. Shortly after taking offce, Secretary of State Rex Tiller- son said the era of"strategic patience"—the Obama admin- istration phrase for its policy—with the North was over. And 十 TOP GUN: Vice President Mike Pence looks out at North Korea 行 om an observation post. Many say a pre-emptive strike by the U. S. could lead tO a war that would kill a million people. 38 N E W 5 W E E K M AY 0 5.2 017

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But the Trump plan, at least what little we know suburbs and the mass adoption Ofthe car. All those politicians knew that infrastructure prOJ- about it, seems unlikely t0 get anyone safely 0 代 that ects make an economy hum. When done well (as Victonan-era bridge, let alone fix the many other oppose d t0 de molishing neighborhoods or building infrastructure blights, like the nation's ele ctrical gnd ・ bridges to nowhere), they make life better for many. The germ Of it is a paper written by economist peter And in times Of econonuc recesslon, puttlng people Navarro, a business schOOl professor turned trade tO work on shovel-ready JObs provides an important adviser in the protectionist Trump White House, and Keynesian sfimulus—albeit one that has less punch Wilbur Ross, the zillionmre secretary of commerce. lt's a crifique 0f Hillary Clinton's traditional call for a near-full employment economy, when you re Just turning baristas int0 bricklayers. That was the government-financed infrastructure spending and idea behind the Obama stimulus package 0f 2009 , instead promotes tax cuts as awayto getpnvate indus- which would have had more road monies if Republi- try t0 pay for road, bndge, sewer and 0ther repairs. cans hadn't insisted that the package be scaled down. Translation: Trump doesn't want the federal gov- The United States IS no longer ln a grinding reces- ー ernment t0 spend a 10t 0f money hiring people to sion, but Trump was right tO focus on infrastructure pave roads and build bridges. He likes a tax-cut plan during the preside ntial campaign. The country had designed t0 get the private sector t0 build roads and bridges that would turn a profit for ビ襯 . The cre- ative accounting is that you give $ 167 billion in tax 「 oR A PRESIDENT WITH cuts over 10 years, and it spurs something like $ 1 tril- lion in private mvestment. HIGH NEGATIVES, A ln the 0 Ⅳ , there 's nothing wrong with private inve st- 期 S ル三一 NFR R リ 0 ・ ment ⅲ infrastructure, but many desperately needed pr0Jects have little chance Of ever profiting investors. 刊 R 三一す E に EN れ 0 The folks who helped build a toll lane in suburban HAS す H 三 0 US リ AL Washington, D. C. , stand t0 get a good return on their APPEAL 0 ド BEING POP リ・ lnvestment because the roads there are crowded, and there are plenty ofwealthy drivers willing to pay LAR WITH EVERYBODY. for the so-called Lexus lanes. But there's no realis- tic prospect 0f a payout for fixing, say, a rural road ー in West Virginia. Speaker of the House Paul Ryan been spending about 20 percent less on water and blithely ignores such inconvenient truths as he touts transportation infrastructure than in 1959 —and his belief that every $ 1 in targeted tax cuts can spur that's while having to meet the demands of today's $ 40 Of infrastructure spending. Buried in an inter- much 01der and bigger network ofroads and sewers. ー view Trump did with The Ⅳ物 Times is his skep- The cost ofbringing it up tO a better standard is "the ticism about private financing. 'We haven t made a determination as tO public/private," he said. "There price 0f a latte per day, per family—not even for an individual," says Greg DiLoret0, the former head of the TuaIatin VaIIey Water District ⅲ Oregon and infrastructure chair at the ASCE. THE BRIDGE FROM 1840 When the Oroville dam burst in Northern California earlier this year, it was yet another reminder (like the collapse 0f an interstate highway bridge in Minne- SOta in 2007 ) that infrastructure repairs are urgently needed—north, south, east and west, red state and blue state, big city and small town. ln Washington, D. C. , the famed MemoriaI Bridge needs serious repairs. ln northern New Jersey, the Portal Bridge on the northeast rail corridor is 104 years Old, based on a design popular in Britain in the 1840S and partly made 0f wood. Across the country, ASCE found 60 , 000 bridges that are structurally deficient. Jenni- fer COhan, Delaware 's transp ortation se cretary, car- ries around a piece Of concrete that Ⅱ from one Of the state's bridges. She doesn't need t0 be hit over the head with a brick t0 know America is falling apart. TOOLTIME: Repairing America's infrastructure iS a good issue fo 「 Trump, WhO iS known (rightly 0 「 wrongly) as a successful developer. 衄 1 Ⅱ N E W S W E E K 44 M A Y 0 5 . 2 017