Word: iraq
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...Boris Yeltsin starts the year by stepping down and handing power to Vladimir Putin. In Yugoslavia, Milosevic's bloody reign ends with a bloodless election. In Austria, that scary Jorg Haider gives up leadership of the ironically named Freedom Party. We didn't even drop any bombs on Iraq this year...
...exactly where Messrs. Cheney and Powell left him - although it's generally agreed that his grip on power is probably a lot stronger now. Despite U.S. funding of Iraqi opposition activity, it's generally agreed that the best hope for ousting Saddam remains his health. International sanctions against Iraq are collapsing because European and moderate Arab governments don't believe they're having any positive effect. At the same time, the U.N. arms inspection team is no longer on the ground, which means that nobody quite knows what Saddam?s scientists may be cooking up. The Iraqi dictator seems increasingly...
...administration also engaged in a pointless bombing campaign two years ago when Baghdad refused to comply with the arms inspection regime, and then simply stopped its attacks after four days. By clinging to a collapsing sanctions regime, the Clinton administration has failed to maintain the strategic initiative on Iraq, leaving Washington in a position of having to respond to others' initiatives...
...father's legacy and the record of some of his most senior lieutenants aside, Iraq policy is a difficult one for President-elect Bush. Tough talk on the campaign trail about tightening sanctions and punishing Saddam doesn't translate into a workable policy. And the strategic reasoning that stopped the last Bush administration from destroying the regime in Baghdad - that it would break apart the Iraqi state, dramatically destabilizing the region that supplies 40 percent of the world's oil - hasn't changed. The challenge for a Bush Administration will be to restore U.S. leadership of the international community...
...distant participant in the peace process, emphasizing the need to maintain stability. The new administration may remember that the Oslo Accord took shape during the last Bush administration, with very little direct involvement by the U.S. And, of course, wider U.S. interests in the region from oil prices to Iraq policy require that Washington do some work in rebuilding relations with moderate Arab regimes. Which may mean the Bush campaign promise to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem may be destined for the backburner...