Word: dilemma
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...French obduracy. Similarly, Blair gained Bush's endorsement for the road map that would supposedly revive the Israel-Palestine peace process, but a combination of suicide bombers, Israeli intransigence and American caution means that there is nothing to show for the effort. This is the junior partner's dilemma. Not only the big decisions but the implementation depends on the main partner. Blair has been let down by the Bush Administration's half-heartedness in pursuing policies with which it has no natural sympathy, but most disastrously by its approach in Iraq. The relative British success in southern Iraq...
...FALLUJAH DILEMMA...
...like Raied and Sergeant Adnan, who was one of two members of his company who turned up after the April 4 fighting started, despite the threats. "I don't like it when someone tells me what I can and can't do with my life," he says. But the dilemma for him and his U.S. bosses is that his determination to stay with the U.S. has put his life in even greater danger. A couple of days ago, someone slipped a death threat under his door. With his next paycheck, Adnan plans to buy a new gun. --With reporting...
...such deal had been struck. Even if it does go through, the proposal to send in a unit cobbled together from recalled elements of Saddam's army (and one that may be more inclined to enforce a cease-fire rather than to actually destroy the insurgents) highlights the strategic dilemma posed by Fallujah...
...Proceeding politically, via negotiations brokered by Iraqi politicians, is unlikely to achieve the objective of eliminating the insurgents, because they have no intention of surrendering and appear to be acutely aware of the political dilemma facing U.S. forces ranged against them. That much is clear from some of their actions such as firing on U.S. troops from the minaret of a mosque, knowing that the political damage the Coalition would suffer from destroying the minaret would be far greater than the tactical damage the insurgents would suffer from losing a couple of shooters taking refuge in the tower...