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...should be standing guard duty at a children's hospital (where three G.I.s were killed in a grenade attack in July). That can be done by others and would free up the U.S. military to do what it does best: hunt down the remnants of the Baathist regime and confront their foreign terrorist allies...
...should be standing guard duty at a children's hospital (where three G.I.s were killed in a grenade attack in July). That can be done by others and would free up the U.S. military to do what it does best: hunt down the remnants of the Baathist regime and confront their foreign terrorist allies...
...Tuesday's outrage in Jerusalem, however, made that position untenable - Washington began pressing anew for Abbas to confront Hamas and Islamic Jihad. That simply underscored the prime minister's political weakness. His function in the current process has essentially been that of an emissary between the Israelis and Americans on the one hand, and those Palestinians with whom they refuse to talk directly - Hamas, JI, the various Fatah militias and terrorist groups and Palestinian president Yasser Arafat. Abbas has been more than simply a messenger, of course. He believes passionately that the armed intifada has brought catastrophe on the Palestinian...
...again, his relevance will be called into question. The Palestinian prime minister's position may quickly become untenable if the Palestinian street blames Israel for the escalation. A senior Hamas official on Thursday called on Abbas to resign and leave the Palestinian territories, signaling the movement's readiness to confront any crackdown on the streets of Gaza...
...wait for threats to fully materialize, we will have waited too long," President Bush told West Point cadets last summer. "We must take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his plans and confront the worst threats before they emerge." Still, there is no good option on North Korea. The U.S. military predicts that 1 million people could be killed in the first month of a war, most of them South Korean civilians. Pinpoint strikes on the North's nuclear facilities are difficult to envision, since some of the known facilities are in hardened installations buried deep inside the mountains, while...