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...elevated elite units to matinee-idol status. He built up the U.S. Special Forces, first organized in 1952 during the Korean War, and popularized the green beret many commandos had already informally adopted as their symbol. The Green Berets' role was counterinsurgency: to defend freedom by helping developing (and pro-Western) nations ward off Communist-backed guerrilla movements. The great test was to be Viet Nam. But as the war escalated, counterinsurgency was shoved aside as the U.S. resorted more and more to conventional tactics of massed firepower. Special Forces were increasingly miscast, used as garrison troops defending lonely outposts...
...symbol of another kind for the former Soviet-bloc countries, which undertook painful reforms as the price of their admission last year. If the E.U. can't even agree on its own constitution, that may hurt pro-Western forces in countries still wanting to join, like Turkey and Ukraine. The resulting instability could hurt American interests too. --By J.F.O. McAllister
...ripe for a Syrian withdrawal. Most importantly, he shares absolute aversion of all the Lebanese factions towards any resumption of civil conflict. Violence against other Lebanese, he told his supporters on Tuesday, was a red line that dare not be crossed. Indeed, his performance led Lebanon's leading pro-Western liberal daily newspaper, the Daily Star, to enthuse in an editorial that "Hizballah is not a problem - it is part of Lebanon's solution." The question, however, is whether the U.S. and other outside parties that have taken up the Lebanon issue will concur...
...role of its people in determining their future." But the trouble with elections is that you have to live with their results. And this one suggests that many Saudis - like their counterparts in Iran and Algeria when they first got the vote - prefer anti-Western militant Islamists over pro-Western reformers...
...Yushchenko is determined to both integrate Ukraine into Western structures like the European Union and inculcate Western values: "Democracy, individuals' rights and freedoms, free speech and expression, human dignity and integrity," he said. The E.U. is making encouraging but vague noises about the new Ukrainian leader. "He has a good track record," says a knowledgeable European Commission official. "But the question is whether he will have the means to push through the socially painful reforms that are necessary now." This pro-Western stance does not sit well with Putin, and Yushchenko hasn't done much so far to improve relations...