Word: mideast
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...Rice's midguided revolutionary rhetoric is only one of the mistakes the Secretary of State made on her ill-fated mission to the MIdeast. Some other lessons the Administration will need to absorb quickly from its crash course in Middle East diplomacy...
...Mideast crisis did, however, help Putin deflect attention away from his WTO embarrassment. "The tension could be felt in the air even as Bush and Putin were giving their joint press conference," said a Russian diplomat, "all their show of camaraderie notwithstanding." The diplomat cited the WTO talks with the U.S. that had fallen flat the very same morning as the primary source of this sudden tension. "Instead of a long-promised reward, Putin got a slap," he said...
...Mideast analyst, Anthony H. Cordesman of the Center of Strategic and International Studies, said in a report this morning that the death was a clear "political and propaganda victory" for the U.S. and Iraqi governments. But he added that its lasting importance depends on two things: "the overall resilience of the insurgency in Iraq, and how well the new Iraqi government can follow up with actions that a build a national consensus and defeat and undermine all the elements of the insurgency...
...statements would appear to be a waste of breath. By cutting all ties with the PA once Hamas took over, the U.S. discarded its leverage over the Palestinian government - but Hamas isn't going anywhere, and the collapse of the PA would leave Washington with even less of a Mideast peace policy than it already...
...nuclear-weapons program. Rice won those countries' support at a dinner in London last week, hosted by British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw. "She made the argument," says U.S. Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns, "that we all have an interest in not introducing another nuclear power into the Mideast...