Word: rethink
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...That may not be something the U.S. is ready to consider. Yet. But the burden of the Iraq mission may yet prompt a rethink. And Blair will certainly be back. For one thing, he still as a medal to collect...
...West Bank to surround Palestinians in two enclosures that together constitute less than 50 percent of the territory. The PA complains that the fence is designed to unilaterally draw the boundary between Israel and the Palestinians along lines wholly unacceptable to the latter, and Rice Sunday urged Sharon to "rethink" the security fence. Israeli officials responded that the fence was essential to security, and would go ahead...
...crime crackdown brought to New York. In last week's speech, Blair offered a tangled road map out of these difficulties, amounting to slightly greater local control of public services, layered in dire warnings about the Conservatives - not that they yet stand any chance of beating Labour. A major rethink of core strategy is just not in the cards. A Blair aide says, "He's not thinking about leaving, but he's thinking about his legacy, which means that psychologically he may have passed the halfway mark." The best headline for the rest of the Blair era: more of more...
...have real teeth? Too often bureaucracies set up panels to deflect disputes rather than resolve them. It's too soon to tell for the IWC; its new unit has yet to get organized. Defeated pro-whalers are still grousing. But despite dark hints last week that it might now rethink its IWC membership, Japan - like Iceland - is likely to stay and fight. While the waters may have got chillier at the IWC, neither nation wishes to become a pariah or a pirate...
...Flushed from cover, they may now be on the move again. Thaksin previously had appeared reluctant to officially join the U.S.-led war on terror. But the war in Iraq forced him to rethink his position, says Prapat Thepchatree, a foreign-policy specialist at Bangkok's Thammasat University. "Iraq showed him that the U.S. carried a big stick and anyone not falling into line would be punished," he says. "He knew he had to do something to mend ties with...