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...government in Beirut and representatives of Hizballah, who want to topple it. Riyadh is also suppressing the price of oil, in what many observers see as a bid to undermine Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad by starving his government of cash. And the Saudis have quietly backed the U.S.'s troop surge in Iraq. Every place in the Middle East that matters, it seems, Riyadh is leading, and Washington is following right behind...
...stands to reason that Lieberman, a lifelong Democrat, would be interested in extracting concessions from Republicans as well. He describes himself as a hawk abroad, and lately his rhetoric has come to resemble the G.O.P.'s, notably when he said Democratic opposition to Bush's troop surge would "discourage our troops, hearten our enemies." But he's progressive at home; he has a long record of fighting for environmental concerns, prides himself on his early support for the civil rights movement and has earned strong ratings from labor. He's even working on a military mental-health bill with California...
...respond to people who say passing a nonbinding resolution like the one you introduced in the Senate opposing the troop surge doesn't matter...
...According to a spokesman for Britain's Ministry of Defense, any troop reductions themselves still represent "an aspiration." Blair made clear to the Commons that the speed of the drawdown would be determined by ongoing assessments of the security situation. Certainly, he knows that he won't be there to oversee the final departure of British forces from Iraq. The former Europe Minister Denis MacShane, leaving the chamber at the end of the question-and-answer session, welcomed "the reduction of British troops in Iraq" and "a mission partly accomplished in Basra," but suggested that aspects of the insurgency...
...That perceived lack of solidarity from Washington - busy thanking Tokyo's rival Beijing for its decisive efforts at the talks - is especially galling given the Japanese government's steadfast support for the war in Iraq, up to and including President George W. Bush's recent "surge" in troop levels. But there are problems coming from Japan's side of the Pacific as well. Cheney pointedly did not find time to meet with Japanese Defense Minister Fumio Kyuma, who last month criticized the U.S. occupation of Iraq as a mistake, and termed Washington's attitude on intergovernmental negotiations over changing troop...