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...“[W]e are setting up critical infrastructure to fail,” he said in his letter, which made only cursory reference to advances by China....
...Penang, barrister Robert Hamlyn and his wife Lesley are awaiting a visitation: Robert’s old friend Willie, now an internationally acclaimed playwright, short story writer and novelist — in other words, W...
...His departure follows a multi-decade career in top diplomatic roles, including US ambassador to the UN, Iraq and Afghanistan under former president George W Bush....
...“[W]e retain an ability to reinforce very, very rapidly should it become necessary. And I think that fact’s not lost on [Iran].”...
...“[W]e absolutely missed the rapid 11-day collapse of the Afghan military, the collapse of their government,” he said....
...George W Bush, who was Republican president at the time of the 2001 attacks, compared domestic violent extremism to “children of the same foul spirit” as the al-Qaeda attackers....
...Two decades ago, the Taliban’s refusal to hand over Osama bin Laden and his fellow al-Qaeda leaders provided the justification for US president George W Bush to launch the American-led invasion of Afghanistan...
...“[W]e have conveyed to the Taliban representatives in Doha, via our Combatant Commander, that any action on their part on the ground in Afghanistan that puts US personnel or our mission at risk there, will...
...Almost two decades ago Tony Blair, then UK prime minister, pledged to his American counterpart George W Bush “I will be with you, whatever”....
...“[W]e’re not flipping a light switch,” the official told reporters after the summit. “This is going to be an ongoing process and the ultimate test is whether there are practical results.”...
...Additional reporting by Katrina Manson...
...“The EU and the UK are in strategic competition with each other,” said Conley, who served in the George W Bush administration, adding both wanted to show they could act with the “biggest effect”....
...US presidents have promised to withdraw troops from Afghanistan since George W Bush first deployed them in the wake of the September 11 2001 attacks to take down the Taliban government that harboured Osama...
...Sue Mi Terry, a former CIA analyst who briefed presidents George W Bush and Barack Obama on North Korea, believed Biden’s policy was being designed as a “holding action, not a breakthrough”....
...They were first sent by President George W Bush in 2001, a month after the September 11 attacks; he called it “civilisation’s fight” and went on to topple the Taliban....
...Khalilzad, who was also US ambassador to Iraq and the UN under George W Bush, is no stranger to policy setbacks....
...“[W]e thought a message without tangible examples of support would not be received well given the scale of the crisis....
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...Danon’s post on Twitter channelled a 1990 insult issued by then-US secretary of state James Baker, who gave out the White House telephone number under the George H W Bush administration during a congressional...
...Mike Singh, who led Middle East policy in George W Bush’s White House, said simple deal re-entry without leveraging Trump-era sanctions could make it hard to get to a “serious, stronger deal”....
...being fired right and left; and if you’re not fired you’re pushed over into a corner,” said Paul Gebhard, a former special assistant to the secretary of defence who worked on the transition to the George W...
...“[W]e should make clear that there will be consequences for any broader impact on private networks, critical infrastructure, or other sensitive sectors,” he said in a statement....
...But Mr Kerry, who unsuccessfully ran for president against George W Bush in 2004, is also seen as an optimistic centrist with a long-held interest in tackling climate change who likes to build alliances....
...Mike Green, former top White House Asia adviser to George W Bush, said Congress on a bipartisan basis had increasingly put the Six Assurances at the centre of China-related legislation because of Beijing...
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