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The main reason some women – and even more men – are more likely to vote for a McCain-Palin combination is not because of Palin’s gender, but because her presence on the ticket reassures social conservatives of McCain’s willingness to accommodate their agenda.
This expanded US military presence was anathema to the core jihadist ideology that the CIA had done so much to foster.
It is possible that Europe could build up a strong presence in Iraq, including a military presence, if a future democratically elected Iraqi government should request it.
The presence of a Taliban truck does not justify bombing a village in which civilians are going about their daily lives.
The North Koreans, by contrast, made real progress toward their own goal of weakening the US presence in Northeast Asia.
Whether driven by realism or resignation, this shift reflects a distinct desire for stability – a desire that is reinforced, especially in Europe, by the presence of another governance black hole in Libya.
During the Cold War, the presence of a common totalitarian enemy seemed to provide Europe with its moral purpose.
Then, stung by the financial meltdown in the United States, and subsequently by the eurozone’s own crisis, the major global banks reduced their foreign presence, selling off some businesses, exiting others, and allowing maturing loans to expire.
A stronger presence in Myanmar’s Irrawaddy, which flows from near the Chinese border to the Andaman Sea, promised to provide China with a shorter, cheaper trade route to Europe.
The bilateral accord stipulates that Egypt can station only 22,000 troops in the western part of the peninsula, known as Zone A. In the eastern section bordering Israel, known as Zone C, the Egyptian presence is restricted to Central Security Forces personnel.
Jihadis have exploited the security void created by last year’s revolution to reinforce their presence in Sinai.
Some games have had to be played without the presence of rival supporters.
But the EU did not develop a coherent strategy, and by proclaiming progress where it has not been achieved, the EU weakened not only its own influence in the country, but also the Office of the High Representative (OHR) and the international military presence (the European Union Force, Eufor, which succeeded NATO) the drivers of progress in Bosnia since Dayton.
It has to remain open - or a similarly strong organization set up - until the conditions for the transition to a more normal EU presence are met.
That country's decline can still be arrested, provided the EU wakes up, the new US administration gets engaged, and both renew their commitment to Bosnia's survival as a state, by maintaining an effective troop presence and beginning the process of strengthening the international community's approach long-term, including finding ways to untie Bosnia's constitutional knot.
Indeed, Israel has made it clear that an Iranian presence along the Golan Heights border would increase the risk of war.
And the presence of other candidates has afforded his victory a semblance of legitimacy.
Finding the government’s draft bill insufficiently strong, he demanded provisions that would give the Lokpal complete autonomy, an extensive presence in all government departments, and authority over all government servants, up to and including the prime minister himself.
It is probably calculating that a few dozen casualties, or even a few hundred, will still be worth the greater prize--a US military presence in Iraq that looks over the disposition of more than 100 billion barrels of oil while breathing down the neck of Iraq's next door neighbor, Saudi Arabia.
Even on the Golan Heights, where there is no Syrian presence, the settlements, located only a few kilometers from enormous Syrian troop concentrations, create a heavy burden, because, in the event of war, the Israeli army would be forced to evacuate them quickly, as was the case during the Yom Kippur war of October 1973.
Even if you don’t believe in Palestinians’ real desire for peace, their capacity to hold terrorist organizations at bay, or their renunciation of the alleged right of return, you can always protect your security with a military presence in Palestinian territories rather than prejudicing the future peace and the two-state solution by expanding useless settlements.”
The real guarantee of American resolve to defend Japan is the presence of US troops and bases, and cooperation on issues – such as ballistic missile defense – aimed at protecting both Americans and Japanese.
After a heart attack, for example, the prognosis depends on the presence or absence of depression more than on virtually any measure of cardiac function.
As Kofi Annan said back in 2004, “In managing, promoting, and protecting [the Internet’s] presence in our lives, we need to be no less creative than those who invented it.”
And this year’s elections saw a more intensive presence of party organizations at European level than ever before.
On one hand, China’s economic revolution has helped position it in the world as a confident powerhouse of trade, a more responsible global powerbroker, and even as a reassuring military presence.
Perhaps the most incongruous presence was Gen. Victor Stanculescu, a favorite of the Ceausescu’s who only days before had reportedly organized their evacuation from the rooftop of the Central Committee.
Without a sufficient military presence, as well as improved and reinforced reconstruction efforts, this goal is not attainable.
The immediate outcomes of nonviolent movements for political change are not decided by macro-factors such as levels of education, unemployment, or the presence of a modern middle class.
Khatami’s successor, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, repeatedly condemned the presence of US and NATO forces in Afghanistan, and even worked to obstruct their efforts.
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