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...also suggested that other newspapers adopt the policy of the San Jose Mercury News, which allows subjects of stories to withdraw or revise a quote in certain circumstances. The rule does not apply to public figures, but to “naive, ordinary citizens who didn’t realize that what they said might get them fired, sued, divorced...
...There have been renewed calls in Japan for America to withdraw its military personnel. Europe and Russia are dismayed by our missile defense plans, and some European countries are even more disturbed by the sheer cavalier attitude with which we brushed aside the Kyoto Protocol on global warming. This is particularly startling coming in the beginning of an administration that promised a more humble, less arrogant American attitude abroad. It is now clear that was simply code for less intervention, not a real commitment to treat other countries as partners...
...flip side of that strategic coin are the settlers, who have little to gain and much to lose from a resumption of the peace process. After all, the basic premise of the peace process has been that the Israelis will withdraw from some or all of the West Bank and Gaza (depending on which side you listen to), and that prospect is fundamentally threatening to a settler movement whose principal objective has always been a permanent Israeli presence in those territories. The deal offered by Barak at Camp David last year would have ultimately involved Israel abandoning a significant number...
...Breaking off nonproliferation talks with North Korea, he contradicted his own Secretary of State and seemed dismissive of South Korea President Kim Dae Jung's Nobel Peace-prizewinning efforts at reconciliation with the North. Most of all, he infuriated allies across Europe by abruptly announcing that the U.S. would withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. Bush had promised a "humble foreign policy," but as far as Europe was concerned, he delivered the opposite in his first months as President...
...Carney: Yes, the Bush administration has been stepping back a little from some earlier comments that had antagonized the Europeans about wanting to withdraw our relatively modest number of troops home. The President today went out of his way, quoting Secretary of State Powell, to say we went in to the Balkans together, and we'll leave together...