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Professional diplomats will say a summit is too ambitious. Relationships are built slowly, carefully. Groundwork must be done at the ministerial level. Diplomats are cautious, and they don't like to stage a summit unless a deal has been precooked. Fine, but a beginning must be made. The ultimate deal could be something as modest as a vague statement of mutual purpose: "We, the undersigned, agree that Iraq should continue to exist within its current borders with a federal government that represents all existing ethnic and religious interests." Or it could be as ambitious as the Afghanistan process, or even...
...Professional diplomats will say a summit is too ambitious. Relationships are built slowly, carefully. Groundwork must be done at the ministerial level. Diplomats are cautious, and they don't like to stage a summit unless a deal has been precooked. Fine, but a beginning must be made. The ultimate deal could be something as modest as a vague statement of mutual purpose: "We, the undersigned, agree that Iraq should continue to exist within its current borders with a federal government that represents all existing ethnic and religious interests." Or it could be as ambitious as the Afghanistan process, or even...
...American security," as Bush put it - jobs and the economy. As he prepared to barnstorm the country for his plan to eliminate the tax on dividends and accelerate income-tax rate cuts, the president was in no mood to go off message. "We understand capital," Bush asserted, laying the groundwork for his central argument that tax cuts spur growth and serve as a cure-all for most economic ills. "I remember in the '80s, when people said we will have deficits forever," Bush said. "The next thing I know is that in the late '90s we begin to get into...
...There may be moments in this war where groundwork words towards a divestment petition may have more support,” he said...
...groundwork began in 1995, when Rudder and Rice met in a discussion section at Harvard. Soon after, they founded their first band together: The Pissed Officers...