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That's hard to say. The insurgents have been able to feed off the dislike most Iraqis have for the occupation. "The slow withdrawal of U.S. forces should eat away an important part of the insurgents' support base" and diminish their strength, predicts Seth Jones, an Iraq analyst at the Rand Corp. who advises the Pentagon. Many Sunni Arabs who boycotted Iraq's elections last January appear genuinely interested in participating in the Dec. 15 vote, while Iraqi nationalists and former regime members active in the insurgency are signaling an interest in forming political parties rather than in continuing armed...
...discovery of 173 mostly Sunni detainees in an Interior Ministry building who were malnourished and in some cases showed signs of torture. "If the Iraqi security forces the Americans leave behind increasingly are identified as anti-Sunni, we're replacing one occupation with another," says Jeffrey White, a defense analyst with the Washington Institute for Near East Policy...
...backed up with a multibillion- dollar social-spending program at home, has spread to South American countries like Bolivia, where two Presidents have resigned in less than two years after raucous protests calling for the nationalization of vast, newly discovered natural-gas reserves. Says Amy Myers Jaffe, an analyst at the Baker Institute for Public Policy in Houston: "Chávez has seemingly become a leader who can galvanize antiglobalization agendas anywhere...
There are big motives to make deals, says Forrester Research analyst Josh Bernoff, namely, "fear and greed": fear of being flat-footed by new technology, as the music business was, and greed, because "all of these new distribution formats look like they have the potential to generate pretty significant revenues...
...writer is a policy analyst for Common Sense Drug Policy...