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...There are, of course, key differences between the showdowns with Iran and with North Korea, but most of them work in Tehran's favor: Despite concerns over its transparency and compliance with all requirements of the international monitoring system, Iran is not currently accused by the U.N. of maintaining a nuclear-weapons program, and it remains within the terms of the Non-Proliferation Treaty - the Security Council's concern is that Iran's defiance of demands over its uranium enrichment program may be a sign that it is assembling the means to build nuclear weapons. (North Korea, by contrast, walked...
...President also went out of his way last week to say he was inclined to favor an expansion of "end strength" in the Army and the Marine Corps in general. That decision is about Iraq but is not about a surge: Bush had a near revolt on his hands from the service chiefs, who feel the Iraq deployment has depleted readiness, hurt morale and left the U.S. with only the thinnest reserves to fight elsewhere in the world. The Army chief of staff said in public that the Army was "broken" and the Marine Corps Commandant made similar complaints. Bush...
...said the Army would "break" without an increase. Congress has allowed the Army to temporarily grow by 30,000 soldiers beyond its active-duty cap of 482,000. It is about 5,000 troops short of that goal. Army officials want the temporary increase to be permanent, and many favor a still larger increase. Schoomaker said that the Army could accommodate an annual increase of up to 7,000 troops...
...Odierno, the new ground commander in Iraq, is thought to favor a U.S. troop surge. He comes to the job with a reputation as an aggressive commander, even sounding a bit like Bush in advocating a stay-the-course approach when he addressed a panel of lawmakers and military experts in Washington last March. Odierno spoke in hypothetical terms about the need to integrate seamlessly reserve units and active-duty forces to sustain an emergency military surge, should one ever be needed...
...Iran could spell trouble for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's hold on power. During a speech to students at Tehran's Amir Khabir University, hecklers shouted "Death to the dictator!" and burned his photograph in effigy. Then, voters in municipal elections held nationwide on Friday rejected candidates he supported in favor of hopefuls backed by pragmatic conservatives and reformists. Both developments illustrate that while Ahmadinejad's radical, assertive policies have made him a formidable global figure, he still has a long way to go in consolidating his influence at home...