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...think the Bush administration has got at least this one thing right: If my communities are any indication, I’d conclude that the more accepted premarital sexual relationships are, the later and less likely couples are to get married. Where Bush and I differ, however, is on the interpretation of that likelihood. I think it’s great; Bush doesn?...
...hardheads in the party is that no Labor party can win an election in Australia on a position of anti-Americanism or opposition to the American alliance," says Alan Dupont, a defense and strategy analyst at Sydney's Lowy Institute for Public Policy. A Beazley-Rudd foreign policy would differ in emphasis from the Coalition's, says William Tow, professor of international relations at Griffith University. But "in office, the two sides' positions on the alliance would be closer than either would like to admit...
...government will persist with efforts to bring him on board, but he's reluctant to accord them legitimacy, and he may be assuming that the siege has actually further weakened Allawi politically by demonstrating how much of the strategic decision making over Iraqi security remains in U.S. hands. (Accounts differ over who exactly decided to escalate the standoff in Najaf into a fullblown battle, but educated opinion appears to confine the range of possible answers to either the Marine commanders on the ground at Najaf, or U.S. Ambassador John Negroponte...
...vision presented elegantly on Tuesday night by Barack Obama, the Kenyan-Kansan Senate hopeful from Illinois--has always been the straightest path to the country's heart, as Bill Clinton proved in 1992. These days, the choice has little to do with policy. Edwards and Obama, Clinton and Gore differ on few issues. But there is no more basic strategic or spiritual decision a politician can make: One America or two? A unifying campaign or a divisive one? Kerry last week artfully and astutely chose one America...
...wanted Kerry to produce an answer for the endless calamity in Iraq should ask themselves, What could he have said? What other politician or academic expert or commentator has produced a plausible solution? For good or ill, the broad outline of Kerry's position on Iraq does not differ from the President's. It does, however, differ in nuance--in its reliance on diplomacy rather than unilateralism and, for future military actions against al-Qaeda, in its reliance on covert intelligence and special operations rather than conventional military assaults. Kerry is not going to bug out of Iraq or abandon...