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...House visit. While campaigning for President, Roh promised to maintain peace on the peninsula at almost any cost, but the North's brinkmanship makes it tougher to argue for dangling carrots instead of wielding sticks. Seoul still wants further discussions and thinks the U.S. might eventually convince Kim to disarm by accepting the North's latest demands for economic assistance. But Washington isn't biting. Even U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, widely seen as relatively moderate, has refused to embrace the North's blueprint. "This proposal is a nonstarter," says an Administration official. The result? "Roh is conflicted," says...
...familiar stalemate. The bomber, reportedly sent by Hamas and the Al-Aqsa Martyr's Brigade, killed three Israelis and wounded scores of other in a Tel Aviv attack timed to mock new Palestinian prime minister Mahmoud Abbas's promise, in a speech only hours earlier, to fight terrorism and disarm the likes of Hamas and the Al-Aqsa brigades...
...TIME.com: But if the security structures remain weak, how will they be able to disarm the militias...
...With Saddam's power broken the need for a revolt has passed. By extension there is no need to create a new paramilitary force of uncertain loyalty. It would be better to disarm and disband this little army before it grows, through American largess, into another force to oppress the population here. It is time to give democracy a chance to flourish. That will not happen if armed thugs are allowed to dominate a rebuilding civil society. Special Forces teams have done a lot to assist in the successful invasion of Iraq. However, their military mission in An Najaf...
...local Kurdish politics. And Turkey, fearful that even formalized Kurdish autonomy in Iraq would stoke secessionist passions among its own Kurdish minority, has threatened to send its own troops into the region to keep a lid on Kurdish ambitions during the breaking down of the Saddam order, and to disarm the Kurdish militias...