If we leave now, we create a huge vacuum where Pakistan, India, Iran, Russia, China and al-Qaida will brutally fight for influence.
Governments don't need to hold these particular enemies close or worry about their mistakes; they should just release them to fight for influence on their merits.
And it laid bare a current of anxiety that is tempering excitement about the elections, as interest groups fight for influence and resentments come to the fore.
Always worried about tyranny, they drafted a Constitution that gives a president limited authority and forces him to use his political skills to fight for influence as he squeezes laws out of Congress and prods the American people to think in new ways.
The United States and the Soviet Union fought for global influence, manning divisions here and infiltrating covert operatives there.
BAGHDAD — Violence and political instability have escalated across Iraq since the withdrawal of American forces, as political and sectarian factions have fought for power and influence in a struggle that, within weeks, has threatened to undo the stability that allowed the pullout in the first place.
AMID POWER STRUGGLE Violence and political instability have escalated across Iraq since the withdrawal of American forces, as political and sectarian factions have fought for power and influence in a struggle that, within weeks, has threatened to undo the stability that allowed the pullout in the first place.
Others insist that Christians must continue to fight for political influence, while developing the sophistication to understand that politics is a game of compromise and endurance.
Since then, five neighboring countries have sent troops into Congo to fight for political influence and control of the country's resources, its gold and diamonds, its timber and coltan, a mineral used in cellphones.
This movement was a profoundly civilising influence because it fought for the political representation of working people in the government of the country.
