Analysis: Bush Sees Fewer Policy Options
Saturday September 16, 2006 7:01 PM
By ANNE GEARAN
AP Diplomatic Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - When President Bush addresses world leaders at the United Nations this week, he will have fewer options and lower expectations on almost every major foreign policy front than a year ago.
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A scan of the globe, however, points up the defensive posture for the U.S. these days and the changed circumstances from a year ago:
-In Afghanistan, a military setback at the hands of a reconstituted Taliban took the administration by surprise this summer. Five years after the U.S.-led invasion ousted the Taliban from political power, the militant Islamic group is proving a resilient enemy for NATO forces in the south while suicide attacks have spread to the capital, Kabul. President Hamid Karzai's credibility has been undermined by the bloodiest fighting since the Taliban's fall, failure to control the drug trade and wide disparities between rich and poor. Karzai is a U.S. favorite whom Bush will see at the White House this month.
-In North Korea, the breakthrough weapons agreement announced during last year's U.N. opening session fell apart weeks later...
-In Iraq, political gains and the capture of a terrorist leader have not stopped the wholesale killing...
-In Iran, the government has accelerated its nuclear program and defied U.N. demands...
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