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...stability and offering the prospect of bringing home American troops. What are widely believed to be the Baker group's basic assumptions - that the U.S. can no longer achieve the goals defined by the Bush Administration at the outset of the war; that achieving stability will require a regional consensus in which Iran and Syria would be important stakeholders - have already entered conventional wisdom in U.S. debates over Iraq. Since the U.S. election, talk-shows and op-ed pages are filled with proposals ranging from partitioning Iraq to backing a friendly authoritarian regime taking power, from "phased withdrawal...
...problem is that while the U.S. and Britain tend to share an absolutist view of enrichment, their allies in Europe tend to be more ambivalent, and there's little support for that position beyond Western Europe. The U.N. consensus is that Iran should be required to satisfy concerns over its program, but not that it be prevented from ever exercising its right as a signatory to the NPT to enrich uranium under IAEA scrutiny...
...best case, we hope to reach some kind of consensus by the end of this term,” said Ryan, who is the Weary professor of German and comparative literature...
...around Washington meeting with politicians and top bureaucrats to help prepare their much anticipated report about what to do in Iraq. But more interesting to top military brass is who Baker-Hamilton is not spending much time with: military experts on insurgencies and warfare. Not unlike John McCain, the consensus of many of these both active and retired military officers, many of whom were sidelined by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, is that there may very well need to be more U.S. troops in the short term, not fewer...
...international consensus on Hamas may be starting to unravel. For the moment, Hamas officials are reduced to smuggling suitcases of cash into Gaza to pay salaries to government employees. But Arabs states were so outraged that the U.S. used its veto power to stop a U.N. resolution condemning the Israel killings in Gaza that they vowed to break the embargo and start sending funds to the Palestinians. In Cairo, say insiders, the Europeans, the U.N. and the Russians began distancing themselves from the hard-line U.S. stance, claiming that the new Palestinian government should be given a chance...