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Rove believes that ideological purity is not something real-world politicians can afford. (Last week he helped persuade Bush, the avowed free trader, to impose steel tariffs to protect Rust Belt jobs--and votes.) The same goes for impartiality, he says, since the parties are fighting for control of both the House and the Senate this November. "We would be making a mistake if we simply stepped off the battlefield when a lot is at stake and when a lot of people have rallied around one candidate who had become the presumptive favorite," Rove told TIME...
...European allies who joined the war in Afghanistan aren't interested in taking on Iraq. Bush has angered some NATO leaders by dismissing their objections to the U.S.'s treatment of detainees captured in Afghanistan, dithering about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and unilaterally raising tariffs last week on steel imports. British Prime Minister Tony Blair has begun to harden his line on Iraq and suggest he might support a U.S. campaign there, but he faces howling opposition within his own party on the issue...
...deep trouble. Just hours after Greenspan hailed the recovery, the House passed a scaled-back economic package that amounts to a Republican retreat on broader tax cuts. The rebates were a one-time boost that won't be matched this year. In another policy negative, Bush's new steel tariffs--in effect, a tax hike--could spark higher prices and a trade war that would greatly damage global growth...
...Afghan proxy infantry. That model proved effective in putting the Taliban to flight from Afghanistan's major cities. It was less successful in last December's standoff at Tora Bora, where thousands of al Qaeda-linked fighters appear to have escaped what had been presented as a ring of steel...
...Shah-i-Kot, the U.S. elected to create its own ring of steel, using the U.S. Tenth Mountain Division, the 101st Airborne and an assortment of special forces units sent by European NATO allies, Canada and Australia to cut off lines of retreat. That gave the U.S. a more committed fighting force on the ground, and when the Afghans folded under fire on the western approaches to Shah-i-Kot, U.S. commanders moved their own men into the breach. An operation in which Afghan forces were to have been supported by the U.S. quickly turned into a U.S. operation supported...