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...days after President George Bush announced a 20,000-man surge of U.S. forces in Iraq, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told TIME in an interview on Friday that the Iraqi government of Nouri al-Maliki could lose both popular support at home-and the backing of Washington-if it fails to establish control in Baghdad...
...compelling forcing mechanism is that this government is not going to survive its own people if it doesn't take control of the situation in Baghdad," Rice said, adding, "And this unfolds over a period of time, and so there's a quid pro quo here. We are prepared to do the augmentation and surge if they're prepared to live up to their obligations...
...Rice said she opposed giving Maliki a hard deadline at this moment, but she emphasized that American patience is limited. "I think in the next few months you are going to know whether or not this is working," she said. "They bring forces in starting February 1st. They bring in another set of forces February 15th. And I think from then on you'll have a good sense of how this is unfolding. So it's not as if there is a date, at six months, we'll know and then we have to do something dramatic. This is going...
...week-long swing through the Middle East and Europe, Rice said that she sees an opening for peace between Israel and the Palestinians that has not existed for years, noting that recent statements by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas signaled that "they're circling each other. And the question is, is this therefore a time to accelerate work on the roadmap, accelerate it in a way that doesn't just focus on today's issues- movement and security, movement and access-as important as those are, but starts to understand what the political horizon might...
...slightly uneasy about his Foreign Minister's new joint venture. Livni has made it known that she wants to follow in the footsteps of Israel's only other female Foreign Minister, Golda Meir, by becoming Prime Minister someday. Bush, on the other hand, has no such competitive worries about Rice. If she succeeds in creating a Middle East legacy other than the morass in Iraq, so does...