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...Still, he hopes that calmer heads prevail, and that the Indian government response is little more than posturing, unlike in 2001 when a December attack on the Indian parliament was attributed to Pakistan, and the two nuclear-armed countries nearly went to war. India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has threatened to send Indian troops to the border with Pakistan if solid evidence emerges of Pakistani involvement. In that case, Pakistan would be required to move its own troops from the border with Afghanistan, where they are making headway in the fight against al-Qaeda and Taliban-linked militants...
...Gist: Latin America hasn't been a top foreign policy priority for the Bush Administration. Two wars, tattered Israeli-Palestinian relations and the nuclear ambitions of Iran and North Korea have conspired to consign the region to the political backburner. But this Brookings report - issued by a cadre of decorated policy-makers, led by former Mexican president Ernesto Zedillo and former U.S. Under Secretary of State Thomas Pickering - issues a pointed message to incoming President Barack Obama. Emphasizing Latin American relations isn't just essential for the region, they say, but also for America's own peace and prosperity. Tackling...
...asked Israel to refrain from launching any major military action in the region during the waning days of the Bush presidency, Israeli sources have told TIME. Previously, some Israeli military officials had hinted to the media that if Israel were to carry out its threats to strike at Iranian nuclear installations, it might do so before Barack Obama enters the White House in January. But now a Defense Ministry official says, "We have been warned...
...Secretary of State. But Gates has won praise on Capitol Hill for arguing that U.S. foreign policy is too militarized and for firing senior officers and officials he deemed to have failed the nation's wounded vets and to have been derelict in ensuring the security of America's nuclear weapons. (See the Top 10 Secret Service code names...
...gambit is the threat to install short-range missiles in Kaliningrad or Belarus - as if those 10 American antiballistic missiles slated for deployment in Poland were aimed straight at the Kremlin's men's room. Of course, they are not. They are intended as a hedge against an Iranian nuclear threat. And the Russians know that by dint of their range and position, these two handfuls of rockets could not even put a dent in their vast offensive potential...