Germany expands presence in Afghanistan
Karl Feldmeyer suggests that Germany is expanding its role in Afghanistan in order to build raproachment with the US without getting involved in Iraq, where Chancellor Schröder made such a fus about during his election campiagn in 2002. Feldmeyer says that Germany has already tried this strategy by expanding its role in Macedonia. He doubts it will work in Afghanistan for the same reasons. He goes on to predict greater American difficulty in Iraq and American comprimise there. He may or may not have a sense of the electoral risks of continuing difficulties in Iraq for the Bush administration, but I think he underestimates the determination of that administration not to abandon its principles in order to curry favor with the voters. Rice, Rumsfeld, and Wolfowitz have all recently emphisized our long term commitment there.
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