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Bush administration should focus on political solutions: Biden
 The Bush administration has to focus on political solutions to ongoing problems whether it is fighting the war on terror or coming to terms with what is going on in Iraq, Democratic Senator Joseph Biden has said. "There are fascists -- there are Islamic jihadists. They are in a sense united in that they`re motivated by the same principles, but let`s assume there was not a single jihadist in the world. We still have a giant problem with North Korea, a giant problem with Iran, a civil war and a major war in Iraq," Biden, currently seen as one of the Democrats seeking the party nomination for the presidential elections of 2008. "They are discernible. They`re discreet. It requires different policies, different plans," Senator Biden said on ABC`s `This Week` programme on Sunday. "And the American people are united, it seems to me, in understanding that they aren`t a single threat, and the experts across the board are united in that a military solution, force is necessary, but is not sufficient." "We need political solutions, and so it`s sad that no one in the administration is speaking to what these solutions are," he said adding making the point that "flooding" more American troops into Baghdad is having "some" positive impact. "What happens when those troops leave? What happens when they pull out? There is no political solution offered here. There`s no plan this administration has how to get the Sunnis to buy into this government, how to keep the neighbours out of a settlement and how to keep the-- and how to decommission the militias. Without those things ...There`s no prospects of success in Iraq. What`s the plan? " Biden posed. Posted by: Fred 2006-09-04 |
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