Word: iraq
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...with Congress on welfare reform, balancing the budget, raising the minimum wage, promoting peace in Ireland and elsewhere. But this year, when his moral authority was systematically stripped, we could not help being aware of the governing he didn't do despite spectacular opportunities. He could dispatch planes to Iraq but not troops, nothing requiring broad debate and consent. He could not trade pet projects with Republicans in Congress--I'll give you school vouchers if you give me the patients' bill of rights--because he could not afford to annoy any Democrats. And so, in the end, there...
...have been involved. Greece on Tuesday hinted that Washington may have helped the Turks find Ocalan. The U.S. had certainly supported Turkey's efforts to extradite the fugitive and charge him with terrorism -- and Turkey's growing unhappiness about being used as a base for operations against Iraq would give Washington an incentive to help out. While White House spokesman Joe Lockhart on Tuesday welcomed news of the Kurd rebel's capture, he denied the U.S. had any "direct involvement in Ocalan's handover to Turkey...
...next tough transition was crossing Iraq. I was shot down twice over the stupid no-fly zone! I finally arrived in Kyrgyzstan only to realize I did not speak Kyrgyzstani. No problem. The client had an escort waiting for me at the port, and he spoke flawless pig Latin, the global language of choice for consultants...
Despite an infusion of international aid, the agreement failed to bring broader peace or local prosperity. Hussein's refusal to join the gulf coalition against Saddam Hussein, for fear of provoking his pro-Iraq citizenry, angered lifelong Western and Arab friends, and the embargo imposed on a defeated Saddam has savaged Jordan's economy as well. The King deeply mourned the assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, with whom he had hoped to mold a Palestinian state, and many Jordanians grew embittered at the hard-line policies of Benjamin Netanyahu. In Hussein's lifetime, when Jordan may have...
...Despite its defiant provocation of Western air patrols, Iraq has failed to win much political support over its plight. "The 'no-fly' zones aren't actually sanctioned by the U.N. -- they're unilaterally imposed by Britain and the U.S.," says Thompson. "But nobody's in a hurry to defend Iraq." Of course, all that could change with a downed pilot or a stray missile inflicting heavy civilian casualties...