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...plausible Democrats running for President - all except Dick Gephardt - gave major foreign policy speeches and called once again for the internationalization of the reconstruction effort in Iraq. This has been an article of Democratic faith: the President needs to share power in Iraq with the U.N. and NATO but won't because he is a cowboy unilateralist. It is a line of attack that has always been hostage to the possibility that George Bush might change diplomatic course - and last week there were strong, if subtle, signs that the Administration was ready to involve both the U.N. and our NATO...
...French President Jacques Chirac, another direct-elections fan, seemed to be in a negotiating mood as well. Two weeks ago, he told Senator Joseph Biden that he was open to a modified version of the American caucus plan - and, furthermore, that he would not be opposed to a NATO military presence in Iraq. Chirac did not go so far as to promise French troops, but he did tell Biden, "If the coalition led by the Americans stays in Iraq, it's a disaster, and if they leave, it's a disaster. So we have a dilemma." But Chirac appeared...
...Combat snobbery" was a term used to define the British attitude; it also applied to America's new German allies when the Federal Republic joined NATO in 1955. The German veterans who had fought in the great tank battles against the Russians on the eastern front made it plain that they doubted the ability of America's postwar army to check a Soviet offensive if the cold war ever became hot. The Germans, like the British before them, pointed to American reliance on firepower and air cover, an expectation of overgenerous supply of materials, as reasons to question...
...goodwill, but I doubt that things are so crass. Of late, senior Defense Department officials have been acting almost house-trained when traveling overseas: witness Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's mild reaction last month to the European Union's latest plans to set up its own defense organization alongside NATO...
...favors lifting the trade embargo on Cuba. (Dean has skittered away from both positions.) His least satisfying position is on the issue he says is most important: the war. He says he has a "success strategy," but he doesn't sound much different from the other Democrats. He wants NATO in charge of the military operation and the United Nations in charge of civil affairs, though neither NATO nor the U.N. has shown any appetite for these roles. He has been studiously vague about increasing or decreasing troop strength. I asked Clark if it is possible that there...