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Military success against the rebels in Mindanao also depends on restarting peace talks with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front. After all, the Philippine army would be hard-pressed to fight the M.I.L.F. and the N.P.A. simultaneously, especially at a time when more than 6,000 government troops are already involved...
For the past eight years, photographer Marcus Bleasdale has been documenting life and war in Congo. His pictures on the following pages were taken mostly in 2006, as Congo's 60 million people prepared for the country's first free elections in four decades. Officially, war ended in 2003. But...
Warning Americans that 2007 would be another year of continued violence, bloodshed and American casualties, President Bush unveiled his "new way forward" on Iraq Wednesday evening. But the speech was as much a testament of failure as it was a blueprint for what to do next.
"It's not normal but it has become normal," secretary Sandra Maria said of the orgy of bloodshed that left 19 people dead and at least 20 more injured. "Incredible as it may seem, we are used to all this shooting. We've adapted."
I wish him well. But I can't help thinking that things will get worse before they get better. Reports that plainclothes police are forming militias to take on the drug gangs can only lead to more bloodshed. The only saving grace is the locals' characteristic optimism.