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Article: Bush's biggest challenge: how to work with a party intent on destroying Israel AMERICA: THE RESPONSE AMERICA: THE RESPONSE Democracy in the Middle East has been George Bush's mantra, but as the Palestinian election shows, this has created new difficulties for the White House.
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- The Sunday Herald
- Article date:
- January 29, 2006
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BE careful what you wish for, it might come true. Never did the
old saying have a truer ring than in Washington this weekend. Ever
since President Bush's administration launched its project to topple
President Saddam Hussein and rebuild Iraq, the mantra from the White
House has been that whatever the drawbacks of the policy, at least
democracy was being brought to the Middle East. So it has been, in
the sense that elections have taken place, but as the Hamas victory
has made all too clear, the results are not always what the Bush team
might have wanted.
Worse, they are part of a pattern which has put in place a string
of new administrations that are unlikely to be Bush's closest
friends. In ...