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...administration should recognize that the difficulty Israel is facing in the Palestinian territories is nearly analogous to those that have arisen in the campaign against terror the U.S. has begun in Afghanistan. It is hypocritical to assert otherwise, especially if Bush’s recent demands for an Israeli pullout are intended to conciliate the Arab nations who have signed on to America’s coalition against terror. Terrorism should not be allowed to sway U.S. foreign policy or derail our nation’s relationship with our only true ally—and the only democratic country?...
That and a U.S. retreat. Bin Laden has repeatedly described Americans as easily scared into submission. He cites the pullout of U.S. troops from Beirut after a 1983 truck bombing there killed 241 Marines, and the withdrawal from Somalia after 18 U.S. soldiers died there. He plainly thinks a large enough number of attacks will lead the U.S. to withdraw entirely from the Arab world and even fall apart as a nation. He connects the crumbling of the Soviet Union to Moscow's defeat in Afghanistan at the hands of local Muslim rebels he aided. In 1998, bin Laden told...
...didn’t score on them,” Pell said of Harvard’s corners yesterday. “The timing of the pullout and the stop, we’re definitely working on them...
...Coming in the wake of other high-profile layoffs in France - notably Marks and Spencer's pullout, eliminating 1,700 jobs, and Danone's shedding of 570 jobs - the AOM debacle casts an unflattering spotlight on Seillière at a critical moment. It cannot help weakening his sputtering efforts to reform the country's social schemes. And before the AOM saga is over, the baron may find that he has lost something far more valuable than a $40 million investment: his reputation as a phenomenally successful entrepreneur. Lady Luck can be a fickle partner indeed...
...influence the process rather than walk away. Once you walk away you have no influence,” Daniel says, citing Harvard’s pullout of investment in South Africa during apartheid during the 1980s...