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...goal is a cease-fire that would halt Israeli air, naval and ground operations in Lebanon. But getting there requires the fulfillment of several preconditions, including an agreement by Lebanon, Israel and - apparently - Syria as well as European nations on the deployment of a NATO intervention force in Lebanese territory along the Israeli-Lebanese border. Unlike the present UNIFIL peacekeeping mission, which in practice does little more than monitor events, the new force would be empowered under Chapter VII of the United Nations charter to intervene against "threats to the peace, breaches of the peace and acts of aggression...
...President's broadcast. In 2004, senior Spanish Socialist Jose Bono was taped at a party meeting quietly telling a colleague that Tony Blair was an "imbecile" and "a complete d___head." Canadian PM Jean Chretien annoyed his American neighbors with some careless tittle-tattle at a 1997 NATO summit in Madrid. "In your country and my country, all the American politicians would be in prison because they sell their votes," he told Belgian leader Jean-Luc Dehaene and, unwittingly, Canadian broadcaster CBC. In 1993, British PM John Major had finished a TV interview but tapes were still running when...
...NATO's member states prepared for casualties? I haven't had to get involved with that because that is the role of political leaders. But we can't afford to let Afghanistan drift back to what it was before 9/11. I feel a moral obligation to help these people who have suffered enormously over the past 30 years, and who want us to succeed...
...will NATO's approach to security differ from the U.S.'s? I've got more troops and a lot more nations that want to contribute resources. I will create zones of security [with] a much more rapid delivery of reconstruction development. Those not in the zones will be saying to the so-called Taliban and others, "Look at the roads, the construction, the micro power projects. You get out of our village, so we can get into the zone." Much of the fighting is a result of narco-lords paying either so-called Taliban or others to fight, which...
...What about the hunt for Osama bin Laden? That is not my task. The U.S.-led coalition retains the counterterrorism role. I'm conducting a counterinsurgency campaign, which is conducted differently. [But] clearly, if an Arab terrorist or an al-Qaeda operative fires on a NATO soldier, neither I nor his political leaders expect [the soldier] to say, "hang on, can you just tell me whether you are al-Qaeda or someone else?" before he fires back...