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...implacable hostility of both the Shiite and Sunni leadership to American tutelage. But given the depth of U.S. investment in lives and treasure in Iraq, it is widely assumed among Iraqis that the U.S. will seek to ensure the most favorable outcome by using its role as the guarantor of security, and the major underwriter of reconstruction, as leverage...
...Those nervous at spats between China and Japan have one prayer: that the U.S., which has close relationships with both nations-and is the guarantor of Taiwan's security-will continue to hug Asia's powers in a comforting embrace. Few things so exercise gabfests on the future of Asia as the fear that the U.S., absorbed by the Islamic world and a desire to rebuild its relations with Europe, spends too little time thinking about the region. For an Asia left to its own devices, where China and Japan are allowed to intensify their rivalry without Washington spreading...
...some in the Syrian regime had calculated that killing Hariri would send a message of that Syria was the indispensable guarantor of peace, that would have been a dangerous miscalculation - a panicky response to mounting pressure to leave Lebanon to the Lebanese. If anything, now, that pressure is likely to grow. But the government in Damascus, or some elements of it, may well be feeling cause for panic. Syria is isolated diplomatically and under fire from the Bush administration, which accuses Damascus of doing too little to curb the flow of men and money to insurgents in Iraq, and demands...
...delicate negotiations," says one Berlusconi ally, "have the stamp of Letta." Along with the reshuffle that brought Follini into the Cabinet, Berlusconi orchestrated a tax-cut plan that gave him his first boost in the polls in well over a year. Here again, Letta played the role of political guarantor, assuring Economy Minister Domenico Siniscalco that the cuts would not put Italy's credit ratings at risk or push its deficit above the E.U. limit. In one of the few victories...
While they sound upbeat, the commanders are worried that one catastrophic event--like an attack on Karzai, who will be campaigning outside Kabul this spring--could shatter the current fragile peace. The U.S. military presence in Afghanistan remains the only guarantor that the country will not fall apart. "If we left," says a U.S. official, "Karzai would be dead within days." So the troops are staying--and attempting, at least, to kick-start the reconstruction of a country the U.S. has now effectively inherited...