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He knows that, short of an armistice, a strategic withdrawal is better executed the less an enemy knows about its timing.
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Hizbullah seized the withdrawal from Lebanon as a strategic victory.
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Repeating their behavior in the aftermath of Israel's precipitous withdrawal from southern Lebanon in May 2000, the Iranians and their Hezbollah proxies are presenting the US withdrawal from Iraq as a massive strategic victory.
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And second, does it lessen the chances of a triggering of the withdrawal of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve?
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Indeed, in a manner even more significant globally than the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, which brought Hamas to power in the Palestinian Authority, an Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank will be perceived as a strategic victory for Global Jihad.
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Given Britain's performance in Basra, a British withdrawal would probably advance rather than harm the US's strategic interests in Iraq.
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For one, the effect of withdrawal is likely to be to weaken Israel considerably, reducing it from a powerful and self-reliant strategic ally to a potential liability , one unduly dependent on the United States for its security.
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