They do, however, express confidence that a bail-out from Russia Mr Lukashenka has promised to secure would stabilise things.
Many, though, have viewed as unrealistic the deadline to secure and stabilise the north-east by polling day, to allow those displaced by the violence to return to vote.
And as in Iraq, the Americans are already being accused of being slow to take charge, allowing a power vacuum to develop.The Americans, along with French, Canadian and Chilean troops, form the spearhead of a "multinational interim force" approved by the United Nations Security Councill to "secure and stabilise" the country, facilitate humanitarian aid and establish law and order.
(Ironically enough, it was Shinseki's signature that appears in the foreword to the 2001 edition [PDF].) So enamoured was Rumsfeld with his lithe and lethal "shock and awe" campaign against Iraq, that, as Fred Kaplan writes in Daydream Believers, he "didn't plan for Phase IV - securing and stabilising the country after the capital had fallen - because he didn't think it was necessary".
Securing and stabilising this line along the central and narrowest part of the country is France's first military goal.
If other positions are required, care should be taken to stabilise and secure the patient to prevent movement on the CT table, or even a fall from it.
"Who doesn't want his country to stabilise or be secure?
Proventus told PrintWeek, the trade magazine, that it had provided an undisclosed amount of funding "to stabilise the business and secure the longer-term prospects of the Polestar group".
Those findings have pulled the rug from underneath the argument that attacking Iran in the next few months and before the departure of George Bush from office, is a necessary step to "stabilise the region" and secure a strategic victory for the US in an otherwise disastrously failed campaign.
If we're going to stabilise our environment and build a secure economy that serves our children and grandchildren, we have to work together.
