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...with real force, lest it seem that Israel was merely retreating from a tough fight. Furthermore, it was the Bush Administration-not the Israelis, not the Palestinian Authority-that insisted the Palestinian elections go forward last January, with disastrous consequences. "The only people who want those elections are Condi Rice and Hamas," a prominent member of Israel's Kadima party told me just before Hamas won the election. A more careful and collegial U.S. Middle East policy might have forced the simultaneous disarming of Hizballah as Syrian troops left Lebanon in 2005. This is not to say that the Bush...
...said to exist in this conflict - such denunciations of an Israeli attack would have flowed from around the world. But Hizballah moved that story away from the headlines and instead drew the brunt of international criticism, most vocally from western governments and the U.N.; U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, in Paris for talks on Iran, issued a statement calling on Syria to use its influence to help resolve the incident peacefully...
...Himalayan pass, part of the ancient Silk Road trading route linking Europe and Asia, was closed in 1962 following a brief border war between India and China. While not commercially significant?the primary goods traded across the 4,500-m-high frontier will be farm tools, livestock and rice?the historic opening symbolizes the thawing relations between the world's two most populous countries, between which two-way trade grew 37% last year to nearly $19 billion...
Nonetheless, a strategic makeover is evident in the ascendancy of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who has tried to repair the Administration's relations with allies and has persuaded Bush to join multilateral negotiations aimed at defusing the standoffs with North Korea and Iran. By training and temperament, Rice is a foreign policy realist, less inclined to the moralizing approach of the neoconservatives who dominated Bush's War Cabinet in the first term. Her push for pragmatism has rubbed off on hawks like Vice President Dick Cheney, the primary intellectual force behind Bush's post-9/11 policies. "There...
...practical costs of the last plank of the Bush Doctrine--unilateralism--may have finally persuaded the Administration to jettison that too. This move is being led by Rice, who is emerging as Bush's most visible and intimate adviser. "The President is more willing to listen to arguments in favor of utilizing diplomacy as a tool to fight radical Islam when it comes from her, because he trusts her totally," says a presidential adviser. Rice appears to have won some internal arguments--such as getting Bush to offer conditional direct talks to Iran and calling for the closure of Gitmo...