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...smiles are sure to be broad, the backslapping hearty and, after the surprising success of Iraq's election, the leaders share more common ground than they have in years. Germany is training 500 Iraqi soldiers in the United Arab Emirates, and France says it is ready to train gendarmes. European soldiers are keeping the peace in Afghanistan, and even a Bush critic like Schröder knows that transatlantic cooperation is essential. "Most problems we are grappling with today can and will be solved only through real partnership with the U.S.," the German Chancellor told Time (see interview...
...make sure stability reigns, that the reconstruction efforts gather momentum, and that the Iraqis begin to build homegrown security forces. The disputes are in the past. That's why Germany is ready to waive [Iraqi] debts. We've also started training Iraqi police and armed forces in the United Arab Emirates. The only thing we will not do is put military boots on the ground in Iraq...
...traveling through Europe this week, President George W. Bush might want to take a second look at the E.U.'s success. Countries around the world are drawing inspiration from the European model and nurturing their own neighborhood clubs, from asean and Mercosur to the African Union and the Arab League. This regional domino effect is redefining the meaning of power. As this process unfolds, I believe the 21st century will come to be seen as the "new European century." Not because the E.U. will run the world, but because the European way of doing things will become the world...
...Kirkuk will be an early test for any new political order: The Kurds are pressing to have it included in their domain on the basis that much of its Arab population was settled there after Saddam had forcibly removed a large segment of the Kurdish population. That demand is fiercely resisted by the city?s Arab and ethnic Turk populations. Tensions are running high in the flashpoint city, with neighboring Turkey threatening to intervene to stop a Kurdish takeover - reconciling Kurdish and Sunni interests in Kirkuk at the national level could prove immensely challenging...
...chips with Israel - although Syria's own mostly obsolete Soviet-equipped military was no match for the Israeli Defense Force, its Lebanese proxies have posed a constant security on Israel's northern border for the past quarter century. Losing Lebanon would strip a regime already dangerously isolated within the Arab world of the last of its leverage in dealing with Israel...