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...last week's Middle East confrontation had Bush-folly written all over it-and not just because the Iranian government's cowboy faction might be strutting its stuff. Bush's failure to patiently broker a real Middle East settlement-mostly because he refused to speak to Yasser Arafat or demand concessions from the Israelis-helped lead to Israel's unilateral withdrawal policy in Gaza. Peace isn't made unilaterally. An unstated part of Israeli policy was that provocations by Hamas and Hizballah would have to be met with real force, lest it seem that Israel was merely retreating from...
...treat them differently from others in similar positions, for example, or that the defendants wrongfully disclosed a private fact about Plame - there may be enough ambiguity about what really happened to propel them beyond a motion to dismiss and into discovery, a process that allows each side to demand piles of information from the other. That's a prospect an already shaky White House surely wants to avoid...
...international pressure forced its ally and enabler, Syria, to retreat from Lebanon last year in the wake of the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, Hizballah has faced a mounting clamor from the other Lebanese political parties to give up its weapons - in line with U.N. Security Council demands - and confine itself to democratic politics. But the Lebanese government has been powerless to enforce that demand. By picking a fight with Israel and provoking harsh military retribution felt by all of Lebanese society, Hizballah may be perversely trying to make a case for maintaining its army, given the clear...
...life difficult on Israel's northern border, may have emboldened Iran's leaders to play hardball in nuclear negotiations with the West. Iran's growing reach may also raise the incentives for Washington to seek a "grand bargain" with Tehran that would stabilize relations based on addressing Iran's demand for a normalization of its diplomatic status and security guarantees if it satisfactorily addresses Western concerns over its nuclear program and support for the likes of Hizballah and Hamas. (In a spurned Iranian overture to Washington in 2003 revealed by former National Security Council Middle East director Flynt Leverett...
...alone influence legislation. My real political impact would probably be greater if I went home, made $4,200, and donated it to a politician of my choosing. Why are interns, despite high value and sharp interest, so politically impotent?Any explanation must recognize a number of considerations. Supply and demand certainly plays a role: for every intern that gets to work here, there are five that would happily take his or her place. Another difficulty is youth: three-term senators are, reasonably enough, often reluctant to solicit advice from college students and recent grads. Our influence as interns...