Word: nato
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...Iraq war, our presence in certain places is viewed as less benign than it might have been. I am concerned that we will find ourselves in a position where we will be the problem. But I pesonally think the African Union needs to be supported by some additional NATO assistance and American logistical assistance. But definitely more attention needs to be paid...
...several Young Turks in the House that included Bob Dole, Gerald Ford and George Herbert Walker Bush. Rumsfeld organized his pals into an informal club and served four terms before leaping to the Nixon White House. There he rose through various mid-level posts and became, within four years, NATO ambassador. He was always unconventional; even in the depths of that partisan era, he maintained a close friendship with Allard Lowenstein, the famed liberal organizer. Rumsfeld took Lowenstein to Republican conventions; Lowenstein returned the favor...
...Hour. But one event alone occupied the major attention of the U.S. in 1952. When General Eisenhower, an authentic hero both at home and abroad, resigned his job as head of NATO's armies to enter the U.S. political arena, many innocent Europeans (as well as many informed Americans) took it for granted that he had been appointed 1952's Man of Destiny, almost by acclamation...
...worst humanitarian disasters in the world today (the other is in the Congo). The African troops patrol an area the size of Texas, have a limited mandate and little money. The U.N. says it may send its own peacekeeping force to Sudan, perhaps with the help of NATO military advisers, but troops are unlikely to arrive before the end of this year. So far, Khartoum says it will refuse to allow them...
...displacement of millions in Bosnia and Croatia and Kosovo, for the impoverishment and ostracism of his own country. Now Milosevic has again chosen war. Like a shark that has to keep moving to stay alive, he is willfully exposing the withered state of Serbia to the might of NATO for the sake of his own power. --TIME, April...