Word: combatant
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Joining an office charged with coordinating the efforts of the many government agencies involved in environmental policy and regulation, Freeman said her primary responsibilities will involve managing the efforts to combat climate change at multiple organizations and agencies with frequently overlapping jurisdictions...
...murder of Oscar Grant is only one piece of a history of systemic racism by law enforcement. Moreover, it is important to realize that many people in this country still routinely combat crime, illiteracy, poverty, and despair on a daily basis. In an era in which a black president is a sign of hope but not a sign of deliverance, we must not discard the politics of emancipation...
...telling Afghans that history will eventually repeat itself and that NATO will go the way of all foreign armies in Afghanistan. That's why breaking the Taliban's stride by inflicting some painful battlefield defeats appears to be the key strategic goal of Gates' Afghanistan surge, in which combat brigades comprising some 12,000 troops will be added to the 36,000 currently deployed there. Those troops will be used to strengthen the approaches to some of the country's major cities and to go toe-to-toe with insurgents in the south and east in order to demonstrate that...
...Despite Western disillusionment with Karzai, there's no sign thus far that Washington believes Afghanistan's fledgling democracy might produce a more capable successor. But pressure on Karzai from Washington - and even the planned "surge" of three new U.S. combat brigades into Afghanistan starting this summer - may set the U.S. on a collision course with its client in Kabul. Defense Secretary Robert Gates warned during congressional testimony this week that the U.S. would have to narrow its objectives, abandoning any ideas of turning Afghanistan into "a Central Asian Valhalla." The immediate priority of the Administration's new war plan...
...Somalia--the site of the world's worst humanitarian crisis--or in totalitarian states like Burma? Doss insists there are limits to what he proposes. "We assist the national process. We do not replace it," he says. "We're not an army of occupation." But introducing a foreign combat force into Congo would cast doubt on whether such declarations are sincere...