Finding The Limits Of U.S. Power -- A Commentary

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U.S. Force Deployment 2007

From The New York Times:

PARIS — The language may have softened, but in the realpolitik of the nuclear debate, the hard choices remain.

In some of the same lands described by President George W. Bush as an axis of evil, the Obama administration confronts an arc of obduracy from Pyongyang to Tehran. The riddle persists for the new administration as much as a solution eluded its forerunner: how can America change the bellicose behavior of those who do not wish to be changed, least of all at Washington’s behest?

In military terms, Iraq, one span of the Bush-era axis, where nuclear weapons were not found, is giving way to Afghanistan as the prime test of a president’s military resolve, all the riskier with troops deployed on two far-flung fronts.

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My Comment:There are limits .... the fiscal crisis that is hitting the U.S. Government will insure that these limits are going to be reached.