Word: nato
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...bread from their hands." The blasts could provoke a change in thinking in how to deal with the p.k.k. Turkey had been urging the U.S. to help root out the group from northern Iraq. Last week Washington finally responded by naming retired General Joseph Ralston, the former nato Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, as a special anti-p.k.k. coordinator. Ralston has close contacts with the Turkish military and will set up a "tripartite" group between Turkey, Iraq and the U.S. designed to ensure that "the p.k.k. cannot conduct terrorist activities," according to a U.S. State Department spokesman. Ralston...
...World War II, we faced a new world order that challenged some of the basic tenets of what we stand for as a nation. In response, we developed a bipartisan foreign policy to deal with those new challenges and dangers. We helped create nonpartisan global institutions like NATO, the World Bank, the U.N. and the Marshall Plan. The strategy of containment was accepted by both parties. I believe that our circumstances today offer a similar opportunity and we must consider policies and actions on a comparable scale, with that same spirit of bipartisanship. This is an opportunity we cannot afford...
...withdrawal in 1989. "The nation was fed up with them, so the Afghan people welcomed the Taliban. And now the government wants to bring them back? This is madness." Now the greatest military alliance in the world is hoping to transform Afghanistan's madness into some sort of normality. NATO now has 21,000 troops in its International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) - up from 9,000 in June - and will be adding thousands more by the end of the year, when it takes charge of security in the country's eastern sector. The reinforcements are coming primarily from...
...engagement don't permit it to attack the Taliban outright, but do permit "proactive self-defense" - an ambiguity exacerbated by the differing restrictions each national contingent has negotiated to the rules of engagement that reflect its government's willingness to accept casualties. On a recent trip organized by NATO, Council on Foreign Relations expert Max Boot says he heard "a British officer berating a Dutch air force officer for limiting his activities to tame convoy escorts and not having the guts to engage in real combat...
...heart of ISAF's strategy: a decision to overlook poppy cultivation, even though the opium trade is a central prop of the Taliban. But an eradication program would suck ISAF into a grinding war with locals who have no other way to earn a living. All that leaves NATO governments in an awkward bind. They have had to acquiesce in the Pentagon's proposed drawdown of some 4,000 U.S. troops from Afghanistan to ease pressure on its forces in Iraq, but their own elastic now seems fully stretched. "The Afghan effort is one people still very much support," says...