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...Americans like to say, 'This ain't rocket science.' The Russians have oil and gas - tons of it - and we need it. We need it now. We'll need it tomorrow. And we'll still need it decades from now. But we still can't get a deal done with Moscow. Not on oil and gas. We've talked and talked and talked - and issued to the international press a string of optimistic sounding half-truths for the last four years - but we still don't have much to show...
...from the truth. That's why, by the way, we sent the Russians a signal just a month before this weekend's summit: we signed a $60 billion long-term liquefied natural gas deal with Qatar. We wanted to show the Russians we had options, that they couldn't dictate prices to us. And so we did. The fact is, we trust sources of supply in the Middle East more than we do the Russians. After all, we haven't fought a war against anyone in that part of the world like we did against the Soviet Union...
Still, people are concerned about making these things freely available. I think there are some rational concerns, and I think they're about the message we send to people about the best ways to deal with their problems. If you take a painkiller, it's hard to ignore the cause of the pain - if it's something like toothache or appendicitis - because eventually [the condition] is going to get really serious. I guess the worry is that, with antidepressants, you could actually, in the long term, avoid dealing with underlying problems - and that we would do a disservice...
...pressing than ever after the Shi'ite group smashed the 19-month deadlock and routed its rivals with the stunning military seizure of west Beirut on May 9. The group's success on the ground is mirrored in the Doha agreement, hammered out in Qatar last week. In the deal, Lebanon's bickering leaders agreed to elect Suleiman, settled on an electoral law for next year's parliamentary elections, and formed a new government of national unity that grants the Hizballah-led opposition its long-sought demand of a veto-wielding third share of cabinet seats. That means the opposition...
...Iraqi Army base where the captain was killed, Rohling drives this point home. "You need to strike a balance when you deal with the Qarghuli," he tells two junior Iraqi Army officers. "I understand that you can't demonstrate weakness, but you can't come on too strong, either. Today is the hottest day of the year so far, but I need cool heads, okay?" They nod in agreement...