US gonna bow down to Europe so save itself from disaster in Iraq
 

major ownage :1orglaugh


US agrees to international control of its troops in Iraq
By Leonard Doyle and Stephen Castle in Brussels
17 November 2003


The United States accepts that to avoid humiliating failure in Iraq it needs to bring its forces quickly under international control and speed the handover of power, Javier Solana, the European Union foreign policy chief, has said. Decisions along these lines will be made in the "coming days", Mr Solana told The Independent.

The comments, signalling a major policy shift by the US, precede President George Bush's state visit this week to London, during which he and Tony Blair will discuss an exit strategy for forces in Iraq.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/...p?story=464488

Well, foreign policy, just like the politics that it is grafted and parcel to, always evolves with events as they unfold on the ground. What others may see as back tracking, others see as being flexible. I tend to be in the latter camp.:2 cents:

Seems oddly enough the same article I posted hours ago, I guess we check out some of the same sources.