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...course Sharon initially envisaged keeping a handful of settlements in Gaza, too, but the domestic and international political calculations have clearly changed that. Now he plans to withdraw from the Strip, but only because he believes it will help achieve his goal of securing most of the West Bank for Israel...
Seven months ago, opposition leader Mark Latham announced on a radio talk show that if his Labor Party won the upcoming election it would pull Australian troops out of Iraq "by Christmas." Two weeks earlier, a terrorist bombing in Madrid had helped elect a socialist government pledged to withdraw Spanish troops from Iraq. For voters, Latham's vow is not the main issue in the Oct. 9 election, but for observers around the world it's practically the only...
ISLAMIC COUNTRIES HAVE A LONG, VIOlent history of internal struggle. Most people know better than to get involved in a domestic squabble. Rather than lose more innocent Western lives, why doesn't the U.S. just withdraw and let those people fight it out among themselves...
...exit from Iraq might be managed. While Bush scores points off Kerry's vow to bring the troops back home within his first term - sends the wrong message to the enemy, says the President - conservative columnist Robert Novak claims administration sources have told him the Bush administration plans to withdraw from Iraq next year. (This being the same Robert Novak through whom senior administration officials allegedly named Valerie Plame, the wife of Ambassador Joseph Wilson of Niger uranium probe fame, as a CIA agent.) Novak says his administration sources tell him that Iraq's election, scheduled for January, will...
...Labor opposition could better protect the country, 50% of voters polled favored the Coalition and 26% Labor. When he was elected Opposition leader last December, Latham trailed the P.M. on that question 21% to 58%. A few days before the blast, and six months after he promised Labor would withdraw Australian troops from Iraq by this Christmas, a Newspoll found confidence in Latham's ability to protect Australia had risen...