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...There's a growing assertiveness on the part of Bush administration critics in the Senate about using their muscle to rein in the White House on foreign policy issues...
...speech signaled a growing assertiveness on the part of Bush administration critics in the Senate about using their muscle to rein in the White House on foreign policy issues. Missile defense may be the most immediate flash-point, but the administration also faces criticism over global warming. Last week, Senators John McCain and Joe Lieberman issued a joint statement criticizing the Bush administration's isolation from international negotiations over measures to curb global warming, and urged the U.S. to set mandatory limits on greenhouse gas emissions. A rejection of the very principle of mandatory caps had prompted President Bush...
...foreign policy imperatives. Overwhelming support for Israel on Capitol Hill may be a reason for the Bush administration to avoid any positions that may be deemed inimical by Prime Minister Sharon, but Washington's allies in the Arab world have been incensed by the reluctance of the U.S. to rein in the Israelis. The U.S. has been forced to call off new air raids against Iraq because it's unable to find support for such action from Saddam's moderate Arab neighbors. Tension between domestic and regional concerns may become acute in the coming weeks as the State Department develops...
...pressure alive on the observer issue, particularly because the fate of Jerusalem's holy sites is a pan-Arab concern. Clashes in Jerusalem inflame anger on the streets of Arab capitals, whose regimes are then compelled, in the interests of domestic stability, to press Washington to do more to rein in the Israelis...
...what Wahid was advocating. Wahid, in his own feeble way, was restraining the army from going in to the breakaway provinces and and committing the sorts of human rights abuses we saw last year in East Timor. I think Megawati is going to give the army a free rein to go in and crush the separatist uprisings in Aceh and Irian Jaya...