News Analysis: With Korea as Model, Bush Team Ponders Long Support Role in Iraq
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For the first time, the Bush administration is publicly discussing basing American troops in Iraq for years.
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Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and a senior U.S. commander  said yesterday that they favor a protracted U.S. troop presence in Iraq along the lines of the military stabilization force in South Korea.
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Steady condemnation from conservatives for the Iraq Study Group report may be providing some cover to the Bush administration as it completes its own review of strategy in Iraq, apparently with little enthusiasm for the panel's prescription of U.S. troop withdrawal and dialogue with Syria and Iran.
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Japan may extend its controversial non-combat troop dispatch to Iraq, a key gesture of support for Washington ahead of a meeting on Tuesday between Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and US President George W. Bush.
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Divisions in President Bush&#39;s first administration gave North Korea valuable time to develop weapons and he needs to put far more on the table to get it to end its nuclear plans, a security group said on Monday.
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The State Department has been lacking a diplomatic heavyweight to handle China issues since last summer, and President Bush's choice to fill that role plans to travel to Beijing this week as part of a three-nation East Asia tour.
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The White House staunchly defended its Iraq policy Tuesday as new questions emerged about President Bush's prewar decisions and postwar planning: An impending weapons report undercut the administration's main rationale for the war, and the former head of the American occupation said the United States had too few troops in Iraq after the invasion.
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SOUTH KOREA SEOUL -- The United States would dispatch 690,000 troops and 2,000 warplanes if war breaks out on the Korean peninsula, according to a South Korean defense policy paper released yesterday. The plan for committing US troops in the event of war appears aimed at easing concerns that Washington is using US troops in South Korea as a rapid ...
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WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration is split over the idea of a surge in troops to Iraq, with White House officials aggressively promoting the concept over the unanimous disagreement of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, according to US officials familiar with the intense debate.
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Four months after Iraq's unity government took office, hope is turning to disappointment. Key U.S. leaders are hinting that Iraq's leaders must make hard decisions &#151; and soon &#151; if they expect American support to continue.
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President Bush and his rival, Senator  John Kerry, may have clashed over how to stop North Korea's  nuclear plans but their policies are not as far apart as their  first debate suggested, analysts said on Friday.
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North Korea has made clear that it would not return to six-party talks on its nuclear programs until US President George W Bush assembles his new team and decides on his policy toward it.
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A lesson of history hangs over debate on President Bush's troop buildup in Iraq: Once a U.S. presence is established overseas, it often lasts a very long time. Look at South Korea, Germany and Japan: U.S. troops are still there more than a half century later.
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Why the Bush Doctrine no longer guides the foreign policy of the Bush Administration
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President Bush and his rival, Senator John Kerry, may have clashed over how to stop North Korea&#39;s nuclear plans but their policies are not as far apart as their first debate suggested, analysts said on Friday.
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President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair, each facing pressure to pull back from a long, unpopular war, are gauging the ability of Iraq&#039;s new government to shoulder a bigger role. But Bush&#039;s spokesman said Thursday the two leaders are not about to declare, &quot;We&#039;re all coming home.&quot;
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As President Bush kicks off his second term, he has pockets of international support from Tokyo to Tel Aviv - but many around the world warily contemplate how the next chapter will unfold under a leader they ...