Word: summiteering
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...display of new missiles and refurbished tanks. He sent his deputies to Cairo and Damascus, where they upgraded Iraq's political ties and signed free-trade agreements with Egypt and Syria, key U.S. allies in the Gulf War against Saddam a decade ago. Then came last week's Arab Summit...
...Saddam is doing pretty well these days. Or is he? What the summit demonstrated is that things would be going better for Iraq if it wasn't for Saddam. True, he has been getting richer, thanks to snowballing illegal trade across Iraq's borders with Turkey, Syria, Jordan and Iran. The intifadeh in the West Bank and Gaza Strip is another godsend. With ever louder public demands for an end to Iraqi suffering, Arab states are violating a ban on commercial air travel with regular flights to Baghdad...
...years ago, growing criticism obliged Washington to let Baghdad start selling its oil under U.N. supervision to pay for medicine and food. Also, it was inevitable that economic hardship in the countries bordering Iraq would spur growing commerce with Baghdad, legal or not. By last week's summit even Kuwait had acknowledged that sanctions had run their course and the new Bush Administration admitted they were collapsing...
...harder. He would have to trust them. And that's what finally happened last Wednesday afternoon, when a big, messy coalition of reformers from both parties gathered in the Lyndon Baines Johnson Room to decide whether to hold hands and jump off the cliff together. As McCain entered the summit early Wednesday afternoon, the size of his gamble scared him, and he wondered if he'd misplaced his faith. "When I walked in that room and sat down, I didn't think our chances were very good," he says...
...Despite the tough talk and the power of the Israeli military, can they afford diplomatically and politically to implement that strategy? After all, that's what has held them back - Sharon even waited for the Arab League summit to conclude before launching these strikes...