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...Rudd does have "fundamental differences" from Howard, he insists: one of his first acts as P.M. will be to ratify the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. He'll also withdraw Australian troops from Iraq and cancel the WorkChoices laws. But the first two items are largely symbolic. Though Howard kept Australia outside the Kyoto regime, it has already met its emissions targets. And on the question of a post-2012 successor treaty to Kyoto, Rudd in mid-campaign abruptly took the Howard position: no ratification of Kyoto II unless it requires China and India to limit their carbon emissions...
...imagine an Israeli embassy in Riyadh, or a Saudi embassy in Israel? I hope we can imagine that they will withdraw, first of all. And that normalization will come after withdrawal...
...Arab acceptance of Israel and a commitment to a comprehensive peace settlement that is unprecedented in the six decades of the conflict. The Arab peace initiative of 2002, which was re-launched at an Arab summit this year, promises full peace with Israel in return for Israel's withdrawal from Arab territories. In Israel, there has been a fundamental shift in thinking at least about the efficacy of occupation, which led former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, the patron of the settler movement, to withdraw Israeli troops and settlers from Gaza...
...White House's confidence can be seen in its willingness to deploy Gates, rather than anonymous Pentagon bookkeepers, as the point man on the issue. Bush, Gates insisted last week, has begun to withdraw troops from Iraq, just as the Democrats have demanded. "The drawdowns have already started," Gates said. "It's really not about principles, it seems to me, anymore - it's about pacing. And that's where I think deference should be paid to the views of those conducting the operations...
...surge policy is the only coherent policy we can follow. I think people need to calculate the adverse consequences for our friends and allies in the region if we withdraw precipitously from Iraq...