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...deal is struck, a confrontation - and perhaps a regional nuclear arms race - becomes a more likely scenario. FISCAL AND TRADE ISSUES The huge U.S. budget and current-account deficits have not been unduly punished by the markets because everyone wants the U.S. economic engine to keep going. But terror attacks or more instability in the Middle East could provoke soaring oil prices and a run on the dollar that would hurt the U.S. economy and put Bush on the defensive...
...It’s a demographic that makes a difference, has opinions, cares about the war on terror, cares about jobs after we graduate,” Roupas said. “Truthfully it’s been our own fault for not voting. [But now] people are saying, ‘Hey, make your voice heard...
This recent incident has in many ways cemented the reputation of the Bush administration: not as a strong and capable wager of the war on terror, but as a dishonorable rule-breaker that chooses to deceive the entire country and jeopardize the seriousness of America’s signatory status to the Geneva Conventions in order to wage a wrong-headed war against the wrong country...
What explains Bush's advantage? For one, terrorism is tied with the economy as the issue voters say is most important to them. And when asked which candidate would best handle the war on terror, voters prefer Bush over Kerry by 19 points--56% to 37%--up from just 11 points a week ago. The President has widened his lead on all the so-called hard issues of national security: whether it's providing leadership in difficult times, preventing the spread of WMD or being Commander in Chief, voters choose Bush by double-digit margins...
Where's Paul Nitze?" A U.S. intelligence expert complained to me a few months ago. "Where's our strategic plan? Where's the NSC-68 for the war on terror?" He was referring to the famous 1950 National Security Council memo in which Nitze, who died last week at the splendid age of 97, proposed a strategy for confronting the Soviet Union. But the expert was also remembering, with anger and nostalgia, an era that started with Pearl Harbor and ended with the Tonkin Gulf Resolution of 1964, when strategic thinking in the priestly realms of foreign and economic policy...