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...manpower are needed to secure the peace. But the President has stubbornly resisted sharing with the American people a detailed assessment of the situation in Iraq: the fact that we may still be there a decade from now at a cost of hundreds of billions. The Pentagon-the civilian leadership of the Pentagon, that is-stubbornly insists that it retain control of all aspects of the Iraq operation and that no increased manpower is needed. Oddest of all, the Pentagon retains its neoconservative fantasy that Ahmed Chalabi of the Iraqi National Congress-who misled the Administration on weapons of mass...
...ambush on a convoy in Baghdad and two of his colleagues wounded, four soldiers wounded in two separate ambushes in Baqubah and Ramadi. The U.S. is facing a guerrilla insurgency capable of mounting multiple simultaneous attacks in different locations, high profile terror attacks that spread panic in the civilian population and systematic sabotage attacks on oil, water and electricity supplies...
...ease with which the Thais captured a man believed to be responsible for as many as 300 civilian deaths stunned U.S. counterterrorism officials. "Pretty cool," says one. "Once we knew who it was, and the locals could gin up the necessary operation, they took him down." Administration officials hailed the arrest as the most significant find since March, when U.S. and Pakistani forces captured Mohammed, al-Qaeda's military commander. Since then, responsibility for recruiting new al-Qaeda operatives and coordinating their activities had largely been turned over to Hambali, whose group, Jemaah Islamiah, originally strived to create...
...retired from the Air Force and never have I seen so much asked from so few. Our Defense Secretary wants to run the military like a civilian company. The thing that is wrong with that is in the military people are subject to getting killed. Who is left to replace that person? A civilian cannot be expected to guard a prisoner or stand guard duty at an installation. We need troops. We need to rid ourselves of an administration who will run this country into the ground and kill our young people because no one had an idea...
...avoid going the way of Saddam. North Korea swears it already has them, and Washington faces few good policy options as it goes into six-way talks on the issue later this month. Iran denies it, but there is mounting evidence that Tehran is using the cover of its civilian nuclear energy program to put in place the infrastructure that would allow it to quickly build a bomb...