Word: afghanization
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Similarities exist between the Iraq and Afghan theaters of war: the enemy's weapons of choice in both countries include suicide bombings and improvised explosive devices (IEDs). But the river valleys of Iraq are very different terrain from the mountains and hills of Afghanistan. The equipment the U.S. used in the flatlands of Mesopotamia isn't likely to be as effective in the high crags of Central Asia. Indeed, apart from sending 17,000 more troops to Afghanistan, the U.S. is looking to redesign their equipment - from the gear they carry to the vehicles they drive to the drones that...
...have the cojones for this level of relentless obstructionism. During the Bush years, Democrats mounted many filibusters, but they were almost entirely with regard to highly partisan judicial appointments. For his major initiatives—No Child Left Behind, prescription drugs, tax cuts, the Iraq and Afghan wars, immigration—Bush received significant Democratic support. Democrats struck a deal about judicial appointments through the “gang of 14,” which smoothed the way for the confirmation of a slew of Bush appointments. There were no serious challenges to the appointments of Supreme Court justices Samuel...
...Iraq we did what we must.” Jawad’s remarks come as President Barack Obama’s nascent administration has signalled an intention to increase its focus on the nation. The ambassador outlined a series of steps he hoped the Afghan government could implement with U.S. support, including more troops, fighting narcotics growth, and starting negotiations with the Taliban, the terrorist organization that ran Afghanistan prior to the U.S. invasion. Jawad also said Afghanistan needed better trained and equipped armed forces to maintain domestic order, though he expressed concerns that funding for military training could...
...Nobody has defined a negotiation strategy in as much as determining what would constitute a Taliban moderate and what they would be asked to reconcile much less considered, given the balance of power on the ground, what the U.S. and its Afghan allies would have to concede in order to get a deal that would make a difference. The model for Obama's suggestion, of course, is Iraq, where the U.S. managed to pacify Anbar province by recruiting most of the local Sunni sheiks, who had previously been part of the insurgency, to wage a common fight against al-Qaeda...
...exceptional talent and drive," says Jean-Paul Coutelier, president of France's French Boxing Federation. "Ours is one of the few sports whose roots are traced to its creation here in 1850, and whose identity is firmly attached to wider French culture. That this young, illegal Afghan may now represent France internationally thanks to the citizenship his practice of this sport will help him obtain is really phenomenal...