Word: ouster
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...terror attacks; masses of Palestinians, regardless of what they may think of Arafat?s stewardship, rally to their elected president and national icon; moderate Arab leaders warn of a regional cataclysm if the Israelis carry out their threat; and U.S. officials suggest politely but firmly that Arafat?s physical ouster would be ?unhelpful.? But each rerun of the ?Rumble in Ramallah? appears to simply confirm the aging Palestinian leader?s centrality to the fate of his people - and that of their neighbors. And also that, three years into a Palestinian uprising that has killed 818 Israelis and 2,595 Palestinians...
...tolerating, rather than directing terror, but preventing the emergence of a new leadership with whom Israel might reach a deal. Still others see expelling him as a mistake that would remove the possibility of negotiations with the Palestinians for years to come. But even among fervent advocates of his ouster, few believe that it would bring an end to Israel?s troubles any time soon. And Israel?s leaders will take U.S. concerns as the reason for avoiding action right...
...from being chastened by what was found in Iraq after Saddam's ouster, the antiwar Europeans are feeling quietly vindicated by the absence of any evidence of an immediate weapons-of-mass-destruction threat, and it's Blair who finds himself in deep political trouble. Washington has little financial and military support for its postwar mission among the most capable nations as long as it insists on unilateral control. In the two years of the war on terrorism, U.S. influence over allied nations appears to have waned rather than waxed...
...untrained, doped-up kids from the countryside, and no one on either side has effective command of the ragtag militias. The majority of casualties are civilian. Most combatants avoid fighting, preferring to spray bullets at the other side and then run. The rebels' only stated goal is the ouster of President Charles Taylor, a recently indicted war criminal who insists he is willing to step down and go into exile in Nigeria but keeps creating excuses to postpone his departure. In any case, the opposition is so fragmented and unpopular that there's no obvious candidate to replace...
...screw-up of the war. If they're still out there, then the 150,000 U.S. personnel currently in Iraq are presumably in considerable danger, and the likelihood of bio-weapons finding their way into terrorist hands would have increased rather than decreased as a result of Saddam's ouster. Finding them would also presumably be the first and absolute priority of the coalition forces, which it doesn't exactly seem to be. That's if they're still out there. Of course, Defense Secretary Rumsfeld would have us believe that Saddam may have destroyed illegal weapons...