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...make permanent progress. What I want to see here in stages is, first, if in a fairly limited time we can focus our force on fighting the war that we want to fight, the right kind of counterinsurgency strategy; and second, if we can organize ourselves, in terms of command and control structures, in terms of unity of effort, in terms of all working together. The increase in civilian capacity that is coming in - how we lash that together - I am hoping that we can do that in a matter of months, not years. Then when I sense that...
...While Perry works the command center to ensure what she hopes will be a "peaceful, well-run, seamless operation," she and her colleagues will have to come up with an answer to how the cash-strapped City of Los Angeles will eventually foot the event's large public bill. The councilwoman would not hazard a guess of what the memorial would cost, but she did use last month's Laker Pride parade as a yardstick, which was estimated to run a tab of about $2 million. Other estimates listed the Jackson total price tag at $2.5 million...
...when they will assist the Afghan security forces to secure polling places in anticipation of Taliban attacks. What happens beyond that, however, remains a question. "The military can help set the conditions for success, but it is not sufficient for success," U.S. ambassador and former Combined Forces Command Afghanistan (CFC-A) commander Karl Eikenberry told TIME. "The military can help deliver security, but the military in and of itself cannot deliver a lasting peace, cannot deliver an accountable respected government, cannot deliver the necessary set of social services and sustainable economy that only the civilian side can provide...
...original version of this article mistakenly identified Karl Eikenberry as the former commander of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan. Eikenberry was in fact the commander of the Combined Forces Command Afghanistan...
...kids, he said - with complete guilelessness, as though loving the kids and doing right by them were unrelated events: "I have a new chapter in my life. I'm only 32 years old. I really don't know what's going to happen." And of course, the Gosselins command more attention now that their union is broken than they did when it was intact...