I've been frustrated for some time that administration, foreign leaders, and press have been referring to UN personnel charged with determining whether Iraq is complying with UN Resolution 1441 as 'inspectors'. An inspector is one who searches for clues. This is not what UN team is supposed to do. Their purpose is altogether different.

'Prove' and 'verify' -- these are key operative words. To date, direct and precise dialogue has not taken place. Confusion abounds.

The UN people are charged with only task of verifying that Iraq has satisfactorily accounted for existence of their radiological, chemical, or biological weapons capability. They should be called "Verifiers". We already know beyond doubt that these weapons did at one time exist. The question now is: where are they or what happened to them. Because UN 'verifiers' have been erroneously called 'inspectors' perception now exists that these UN personnel need more time to do their job, 'to find more clues'.

For nearly four decades, America's approach to social problems has been dominated by a scientific methodology and culture whose practical assumptions require that material conditions associated with specific human behaviors are to be treated as causes of those behaviors independent of a more fundamental causal connection to spiritual dynamics of human person.

This scientific perspective, by denying causal relationship between spiritual and human behavior, substantially diminishes perceived reality of individual and transforms it into a rough caricature of itself. Devoid of spiritual content, freedom, and dignity, individual is by methodological requirements reduced to a kind of 'empty vessel' whose sole function in scheme of research is to act as a locus wherein social and economic forces interact and supposedly determine course of one's behavior.