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...Afghanistan is not going well. But don't take our word for it. "We're not going to win this war," rues Brigadier Mark Carleton-Smith, Britain's top commander in Afghanistan. The current strategy is "doomed to fail," says the British ambassador Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles. The latest U.S. National Intelligence Estimate notes that the country is in a "downward spiral." Since May, some 180 coalition troops have died in Afghanistan, compared with 120 in Iraq. On Oct. 14, four more NATO soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb...
...inevitable. Brigadier Mark Carleton-Smith, Britain's top military officer in Afghanistan, has said, "We're not going to win this war." At best, he says, international troops can hope to reduce it "to a manageable level of insurgency that's not a strategic threat." U.K. ambassador Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles, in a leaked diplomatic briefing with the French deputy ambassador, is said to have described the current situation in Afghanistan as "bad; the security situation is getting worse - so is corruption - and the government [of President Hamid Karzai] has lost all trust." The American strategy, he said, "is doomed...
...running higher than in the fortified palaces that house the country's royal rulers. Though the al-Saud dynasty has controlled the country for 72 years, the public is losing faith in its ineffectual governance and doubts its ability to snuff out terrorism. British ambassador to Saudi Arabia Sherard Cowper-Coles calls the terrorist threat "serious and chronic." One Saudi lawyer, Mansour al-Qerni, is even more pessimistic. "Is this going to end, or are my children going to have to accept this as a part of their lives?" Says a Saudi political analyst: "The way people are talking...
...surprising number are canonical poets: Dryden, Johnson, Cowper, Blake, Wordsworth, and Coleridge, among others. The eclipse of their anti-slavery writings is hard to understand, especially because some, such as Wordsworth and Coleridge, wrote against slavery from their college days to the end of their lives. More than 40 women poets turn up, ranging from Georgiana Cavendish, the Duchess of Devonshire, to Anne Yearsley the milkmaid poet and other servant girls on both sides of the Atlantic. They give voice to powerful feminine perspectives on a topic that might have been seen as suitable only for the governing male elite...
...William Cowper (1731-1800) from "The Time-Piece," Book II of The Task