Word: pullouts
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...Army bosses in Baghdad didn't. "Maybe because of my experience - and certainly because the Marines were doing so well - I had a sense that things were doable," Kelly said, "perhaps before other people had a sense that they were doable." As Obama unveils the specifics of his pullout plan, he can only hope he's as sure-footed as Kelly...
...whom are running for Olmert's job, wanted to end it earlier. But the two candidates differed on how to end it: Barak, a former general himself and ex-premier, argued that a cease-fire concluded with Hamas would be more durable. But Livni argued for a unilateral pullout from Gaza, having dealt the territory a heavy blow and reestablished Israel's "deterrent" power by its readiness to attack again. And the foreign minister got her way. (See images of heartbreak in the Middle East...
...experience of the Gaza pullout convinced even some of the most ardent peace activists that turning over full control of the West Bank to the Palestinians could be dangerous. With land for peace discredited, the Israeli public turned to deterrence, using the strongest army in the region to crush opponents. Once Palestinians realize that they cannot defeat Israel - the thinking goes - Israel's other adversaries will...
...Treasury debt, took their money and went home, the repercussions for America would be catastrophic. At a moment when the already large U.S. budget deficit is poised to skyrocket, thanks to the various bailouts and stimulus packages Washington has passed to cope with the economic crisis, a pullout of Chinese assets would send interest rates soaring, and a deepening recession could become something worse...
...Keeping Gates in place would demonstrate Obama's self-confidence in the presidency by entrusting a key post in his cabinet post to a GOP appointee. (But if Obama slows his planned pullout of U.S. troops from Iraq, as some in the military want him to do, he could be seen as deferring to President Bush's Defense Secretary...