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...against diffuse terrorist networks. It became fashionable in the years after 9/11 to speak of "Islamo-fascism." In reality, the enemy was more like communism in its heyday: international in its scope, revolutionary in its ambitions and adept at recruiting covert operatives in the West. The right tactic to defeat it was not conventional warfare but tedious intelligence work--monitoring telephone calls, tracking financial transactions, shadowing suspects, infiltrating cells...
...after the U.S.' stunning defeat - yes, despite our recent failures, these losses still shock - Coach K should dump his $100,000 motivational speeches in the Pacific. Because, at the moment, American basketball fans just want answers, not sermons...
...Maliki's credibility may also be a casualty of the battle, or at least its aftermath. The fight, in essence, put him and his government's claims to have a viable path to a national reconciliation plan to the test: either they are prepared to fight costly battles to defeat committed Shi'ite militiamen, or they are willing to cede control of neighborhoods and cities to the militias. In Diwaniya, it now seems, the government has chosen the path of least resistance, gaining a measure of calm in the city on Sadr's terms...
...those cutting Medicaid and other social programs that fiscally conservative Republicans have insisted on, votes for which Democrats have then attacked moderate Republicans in television ads. Pelosi has also ordered Democrats not to work on bills or even hold press conferences with Republicans whom the party is trying to defeat in November...
...need for "teeth." Centcom has had a small contingent in the Horn of Africa state of Djibouti since 2002, and Centcom commander General John Abizaid told the Senate Armed Services Committee in March that the unit has helped "discredit extremist propaganda and bolster local desires and capabilities to defeat terrorists before they can become entrenched." How? By training local forces, digging wells and building schools--not to mention goodwill...