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Bush was leaving the door open, but Musharraf was driving at a larger point. "How do we know the United States won't abandon us?" he asked. "You tell your people," said Bush, leaning forward and raising his finger as if testing the wind, "that the President looked you in the eye and told you that he would stick with...
...diminished the anti-American anger on which bin Laden built his movement - Arab media is dominated not by stories of al-Qaeda's defeat, but by reports of Palestinians under attack by Israel and of U.S. support for Ariel Sharon; moderate Arab regimes are pleading with Washington to abandon talk of a new war with Iraq, and so on. But whether the militants in the various Islamist networks are going to continue to risk their necks for bin Laden will depend not simply on their anger at America, but on whether the Saudi terrorist leader looks like a winning horse...
...becoming more elusive the closer you get to them, and victory doesn't necessarily bring the promised spoils. The conflict in Afghanistan has confounded expectations. Who anticipated that the Taliban's rule would disintegrate wholesale two months into the U.S. bombing campaign? Or that the regime's soldiers would abandon Kandahar as meekly and abruptly as they did, quitting the city in the dead of night...
...becoming more elusive the closer you get to them, and victory doesn't necessarily bring the promised spoils. The conflict in Afghanistan has confounded expectations. Who anticipated that the Taliban's rule would disintegrate wholesale two months into the U.S. bombing campaign? Or that the regime's soldiers would abandon Kandahar as meekly and abruptly as they did, quitting the city in the dead of night...
...champagne toasts, they do not seem overtly hostile to the idea. Some, however, including Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov, have expressed "regret" at Bush?s decision. "Russia can be unconcerned with its defense systems," Kasyanov said Wednesday. "Maybe other nations should be concerned if the United States chooses to abandon the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty." During his announcement Thursday, President Bush assured Americans that he and Russian President Vladimir Putin had spoken repeatedly about the treaty, and that no harm will come of the U.S. move. Putin declared Thursday he felt the withdrawal was a "mistake," but declined any further...