Not all countries are the same size, or have the same needs, |
not inevitable, although as the president has said, 'Time is running out.' |
not the first major battle, and certainly won't be the last. |
Now is the time for resolve, not retreat. Turning our backs on post-war Iraq today would be the modern equivalent of handing post-war Germany back to the Nazis. |
Numbers are interesting, but they're not determinative, |
obligation to stop it? |
Obviously I've always believed the sooner the constitution was completed, and sooner it was voted on, the greater the likelihood the Iraqi people would feel they have a stake in the country, and that they have an acceptable set of compromises that would protect them from each other, |
Obviously it's something that one has to be attentive to and be concerned about, but I haven't seen anything to suggest that the risk is greater today than it was yesterday or the day before. |
Obviously the hope and goal of all of the nations that have troops in the Balkans, is that over a period of time the parties on the ground will sort through their differences in a peaceful and constructive way and find the kind of civil structures that will enable them to have the stability that would be necessary for them on a more durable basis, |
Obviously, the United States does not have a responsibility when a sovereign country engages in something that they disapprove of, |
Obviously, there would be many ways that one could easily -- were one alive -- one could easily indicate that they were alive and that the tape had been made recently, |
Oh my goodness gracious, what you can buy off the Internet in terms of overhead photography. A trained ape can know an awful lot of what is going on in this world, just by punching on his mouse, for a relatively modest cost. |
Oh, I wouldn't go down that road myself, |
Oil had to be a factor in the White House calculations, even if the motivation was less about short-term U.S. oil supplies and more about future geopolitical power. In 2000, two-thirds of Persian Gulf oil went to Western industrial nations. By 2015, according to CIA estimates, three-quarters of the Gulf's oil will go to Asia, chiefly to China. |
on the list of priorities. |