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...Somalia is once again the war no one wants to touch. Ethiopia is discovering, as the U.S. has in Iraq, that invasion and occupation are two different things. It is stuck fast in its own East African quagmire, reluctant to stay yet unable to withdraw. This month, in response to a Security Council request, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon said sending in a U.N. peacekeeping force was "neither realistic, nor viable" and - appropriating the White House's language - suggested the formation a multinational "coalition of the willing." Ban knows full well that no one is willing. The African Union...
...nephew Napoléon III was ready to try another New World power play, sending an army to Mexico to collect debts and later installing an Austrian archduke as emperor. The U.S., distracted by the Civil War, did nothing at first. But in 1866 it demanded that the French withdraw and offered moral and diplomatic support when the Mexicans overthrew the imperial puppet regime soon thereafter...
...apartheid, he said, was “as if Bush were to immediately withdraw troops from Iraq and increase taxes for rich Americans,†Leon said...
...diplomacy, and she has earned the trust of the military because of her hard work on the Senate Armed Services Committee. Her refusal to be pinned down on her exact plans for leaving Iraq has been the subject of recent attacks by Edwards. But Edwards' proposal to immediately withdraw 50,000 troops from Iraq - without saying which troops, from what regions and what the remaining troops would do - demonstrates a careless political expediency on an issue that demands the utmost care...
...going to be a Darwinian process, a sorting out of those who are actually producing a respectable performance and those who are not," says Giles Conway-Gordon, managing partner of San Francisco-based Cogo Wolf Asset Management, an investment manager for wealthy individuals. He predicts that investors could withdraw as much as $500 billion from funds that tanked this summer...