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...Laden's ambitions in the short run are plain. His first goal is to compel the U.S. to withdraw its military forces (today numbering 6,000) from his native Saudi Arabia. The presence of foreign troops in the cradle of Islam is, for him, "the latest and the greatest" of all infidel aggressions against the religion in its 14-century history. By their very presence, he believes, the U.S. forces defile the Muslim holy land. "Now infidels walk everywhere on the land where Muhammad was born and where the Koran was revealed to him," he lamented to TIME...
That and a U.S. retreat. Bin Laden has repeatedly described Americans as easily scared into submission. He cites the pullout of U.S. troops from Beirut after a 1983 truck bombing there killed 241 Marines, and the withdrawal from Somalia after 18 U.S. soldiers died there. He plainly thinks a large enough number of attacks will lead the U.S. to withdraw entirely from the Arab world and even fall apart as a nation. He connects the crumbling of the Soviet Union to Moscow's defeat in Afghanistan at the hands of local Muslim rebels he aided. In 1998, bin Laden told...
...Party (UUP) leader David Trimble delivered an ultimatum to Sinn Fein, the IRA’s political wing. Trimble announced that unless the paramilitary group began “a credible process of decommissioning” its weapons in accordance with the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, the UUP would withdraw its three ministers from the executive and abandon Northern Ireland’s unstable alliance government...
...however, he will have to withdraw from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty, a move that has still not gained overwhelming support among Washington liberals. Many congressional Democrats continue to view the ABM Treaty as a cornerstone of nuclear stability in the modern world. Before the tragedies of Sept. 11, Bush had declared that the U.S. wanted a complete overhaul of the treaty. He stressed that he would unilaterally pull out of the agreement if Russian President Vladimir Putin did not compromise. Upon witnessing the carnage in New York, Washington, D.C. and Pennsylvania, it became clear that there...
Clearly, for America to develop the most effective and technologically sophisticated missile defense system with global possibilities, Bush must withdraw America from ABM. Skeptics of missile defense have long questioned the authenticity of testing procedures. We can only alleviate their concerns by abandoning the treaty...