A minority of hardliners are taking the state's disengagement from Gaza as a cue to disengage from the state.
He said: "We cannot afford to give the impression that we are going to disengage.
"First, Ms Lawrie and her lawyers would ignore Mr Lawler in the future and disengage from the inquiry.
It is one reason why the Middle East matters so much and why any attempt to disengage is so wrong and short-sighted".
It's difficult to disengage with something you've contributed towards and been so invested in.
If the threat of an Iranian nuclear bomb is set aside, says Mr Shapiro, America could disengage more easily, relying on a lighter military presence to keep the Gulf's sea lanes open.But if America retains an interest in the region's overall stability, such disengagement would not serve it well.
In prose terms, the interaction between these external and internal worlds gives the narrative a thick, involved feel that is both unsettling and near-impossible to disengage from.Here is powerful writing indeed, intricately structured, driven, highly ambitious, and at times very funny.
Unsettling the settlersIsrael's prime minister, Ariel Sharon, shook Israelis by declaring that he would remove all Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip as part of his plan to "disengage" from the territories occupied by Israel since the war of 1967.
The general recently told an Irish newspaper that his first challenge would be to "disengage" the 14-country mission from the French national presence in Chad.
The time to disengage has passed and without the USSR just who is NATO's enemy?ANDRIUS VARNASRedondo Beach, CaliforniaBanking on biometricsSIR You dismiss biometrics by saying "passwords have been around for millennia, and will live on for some time yet" ("The measure of man", September 9th).
Left to itself, the market would support a fraction of that number.Will politicians ever disengage from business?
