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...S.D.P. Nonetheless, he has made it clear he is at odds with Labor's manifesto; for example, he opposes unilateral disarmament and would keep Britain in the Common Market. The lean, eloquent Shore is somewhat idiosyncratic; he wants the country out of the Common Market but strongly supports NATO...
Kosovo's political status had been undetermined since 1999, when Serbian forces were forced to withdraw under NATO bombs. The province was then placed under U.N. control. Now, Kosovo's elected government is expected to assume more authority, although it will still be closely monitored by members of the newly established European Union mission. The EU will also provide much of the new nation's police force and judiciary, while some 17,000 NATO troops will continue to secure peace...
...their historic heartland. Minutes after Thaci finished reading the declaration in Pristina, Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica addressed the nation in Belgrade, declaring Kosvo's independence "null and void." "Kosovo's unilateral declaration of a false state is the final act of a policy that started with the NATO aggression against Serbia in 1999," the Prime Minister said in a televised speech spiked with harsh anti-Western sentiments. Most of Kostunica's anger was directed towards the United States in general and President George Bush in particular. "The President of the United States, who is responsible for this violation, will...
...that "many people on this Continent may not comprehend the magnitude of the direct threat to European security" from violent Islamic extremism. Some comments in Germany after his speech - Gates has been involved in a very public effort to persuade the German government to boost its contribution to the NATO force in Afghanistan and post troops to the dangerous south of the country as well as the north and west - showed the world-weary hauteur that Americans have come to expect from some Europeans. "The superpower America reacts to crisis situations in Afghanistan," sniffed the newspaper Handelsblatt, "with its stereotypical...
...Munich conference, and put things in perspective for me. When he was serving in U.S. Army intelligence in Germany, Peters said, "We couldn't get the Germans to move 8 km. Now we've got them moving 8,000 miles." That speaks to a transformation in NATO's true nature. For all its vaunted success in the cold war, Peters argues, NATO back then was really a political organization. But now - fitfully, to be sure - it is becoming a true military alliance, one that fights, and shares the business of fighting among its members...