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...simply as survival as a military force, and so far, it seems right to believe it is winning. It may see Israeli uncertainty over how to pursue the campaign and the mounting pressure on the U.S. to press for a truce as signs that continuing to fight can only strengthen its position at the bargaining table...
...between the hard-liners who kidnapped the Israeli corporal and moderates like Haniya who can be potential diplomatic partners for the U.S. "The strategy should be to identify the fissures in a terrorist group and widen those chasms to cause it to explode, to isolate the hard-liners and strengthen the moderates," says Bruce Hoffman, a terrorism expert at the Rand Corp. and the author of the new book Inside Terrorism. "The risk of painting all terrorists with one brush is that you miss those signs, and so you miss those opportunities...
...enmeshed in a nasty war if they tried. British Prime Minister Tony Blair signaled that Hizballah would hardly be a straightforward enemy when he said the deployment "can only work if Hizballah is prepared to allow it to work." Even so, U.S. officials still hope the foreign presence could strengthen the political forces inside Lebanon--Christian, Druze, Sunni and others--that resent political domination by Hizballah's private army, perhaps to the point that Prime Minister Fouad Siniora's government would finally move against it. But Aaron Miller, a former top U.S. Middle East negotiator, says Lebanon's political fragility...
...spoken to since has insisted that stopping the bombardment is an absolute priority. Even the Iraqi government, ostensible poster child of the "new Middle East," has differed sharply with the Bush administration's stance. What the Arabs are telling Washington is this: Not only will the Israeli bombardment probably strengthen Hizballah in Lebanon, but its continuation with U.S. blessing will imperil other U.S. interests in the region...
...Mark’s breadth of investment experience across a spectrum of asset classes, his analytical strengths, and his knowledge of the external management landscape will serve to further strengthen our Company’s ability to generate over time superior returns for the endowment and related funds,” he said in a statement...