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...consensus,” Berry says. “Nobody could have chosen this design at the beginning. It is part of the process...
...best week in Iraq for as long as anyone can remember, and that despite the fact that the ongoing violence has killed scores of Iraqis and around a dozen coalition troops in the past seven days. The good news has been the emergence of a new transatlantic consensus on Iraq showcased at the G8 summit hosted by President Bush off the coast of Georgia, and codified in a unanimous UN Security Council resolution endorsing the U.S. plan to transfer sovereignty to Iraq's new interim government on June...
...international consensus on Iraq is a product of Washington moving inexorably over the past year to revise its own plans in the direction of relinquishing control over Iraq's political and economic future. Originally, the Bush administration had appointed its administrator for Iraq, J. Paul Bremer, to manage a three-year program of remaking Iraq under U.S. tutelage, with the UN confined to the role of humanitarian NGO and occasional consultant. But the realities on the ground forced repeated revisions to that plan. It became clear to the U.S. military that the violent insurgencies in the Sunni triangle and among...
...consensus is based on the premise of a genuine and immediate restoration of Iraqi sovereignty. To get there, the Bush administration had to let go of the idea of Iraq as a kind of laboratory in which the occupation authority could slowly nurture a democratic, market-oriented, pro-U.S. and Israel-friendly system of government that would serve as a model for remaking the entire region. Instead, full sovereignty is being handed to an interim structure whose primary mandate is to hold elections within six months - the new Iraq that emerges from the current process will be more like...
Probably the most unexpected result is that there is no consensus about the best way to lose weight. Half the registrants shed the pounds on their own; the other half enrolled in a program or went to a nutritionist. Some participants emphasized protein, others a low-fat diet. But most chose some combination of limiting what they ate and increasing their level of physical activity...