Word: nato
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...changed over the last several years, as a new generation of conservative politicians has pushed Japan to take a more active role abroad, including providing support for the U.S. occupation of Iraq. Also, the Japanese navy currently engages in refueling missions in the Indian Ocean to back up NATO-led antiterror operations in Afghanistan, while the air force ferries supplies and personnel from Kuwait to Baghdad and northern Iraq. That may not sound like much, but such operations would have been unthinkable to pacifist Japan as recently as a decade...
...Earlier that day I'd visited NATO headquarters to talk to an American Marine colonel who tracks suicide bombings and improvised explosive devices. He came straight to the point: neither military force nor intelligence is going to stop suicide bombings. Only "mitigate" them. What NATO is pressing the Afghans to do is to deindocrinate young men like Farhad. But how do you get someone like Farhad, who may never have seen a map, change his radical worldview...
...Does Congress pass legislation to instruct the President on the details of a withdrawal? Do they dictate terms on how to involve NATO or other allies? Or even on how to negotiate with Iran and Syria over the withdrawal? And what if something happens to U.S. troops during the pullout or Iraq rapidly plunges into a bloody civil war as U.S. troops are leaving? Who is to blame? Bush? Congress...
...Within hours of the Kremlin's announcement, the Russian Foreign Ministry said that Russia will halt inspections and verifications of its military sites by NATO countries and will no longer limit the number of its conventional weapons. Russia, however, had already halted such verification visits after a CFE treaty conference held in Vienna last month turned a deaf ear to Russia's complaints; military delegations from Bulgaria and Hungary had been denied entry to Russian military units. Also last month, Russia turned down an invitation to take part in joint exercises with the U.S., Romania and Bulgaria. General Vladimir Shamanov...
...rest of the world may not. The European Union and NATO have already expressed their regrets about Putin's action. "It is a step in the wrong direction," NATO spokesman James Appathurai said in Brussels...