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THE outcome, whichever way you cut it, was emphatic. For the winner, more of the "hard work" he whinged on about in those televised debates beckons. But what will four more years of this George W Bush presidency feel like? Three Black Watch soldiers, patrolling in Iraq yesterday, backfilling duties behind overstretched American forces, will never find out. They will not, despite all the promises, be home for Christmas.
This American president pledges to go on prosecuting the war on terror with the utmost vigour. But does that mean devoting adequate resources to pacifying a post-Saddam Iraq? Or will the Bush White House, having flattened Falluja, start an aerial bombardment of Iran, as some of its neo-con cheerleaders have been hinting, and ferment an even wider backlash across the region?See the full content of this document
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Cowering in Anticipation of What America Might Do Next
How is this president's reaffirmed decision to spread "freedom and democracy" throughout the Middle East to be redeemed? Will Washington seize the opportunity presented by Yassar Arafat's terminal condition to do as Tony Blair urges and act to reinvigorate the peace process between Israel and th...
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