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...past three months, the Pentagon has concluded that the war against the insurgents "is not winnable in the near term," says Seth Jones, an Iraq expert at the Rand Corp. Pentagon officers have been reviewing other insurgencies' histories, which indicate that the rebels take, on average, nine years to defeat...
...lives of 29 U.S. service members, bringing the total number of American dead to 1,829. Among U.S. commanders, the consensus is that U.S. and Iraqi forces are not capable of extinguishing the insurgency on the battlefield--which Rice acknowledged to TIME. "If you think about how to defeat an insurgency, you defeat it not just militarily but politically," she says. That has increased the burden on Rice to hammer out a political arrangement that can appeal to disaffected Sunnis and eventually allow the U.S. to beat a dignified retreat. "She's up to her ears" on Iraq, says...
...ineffectual, and the office coffee maker’s concoction was just plain bad. So I sucked it up and headed for Starbucks. It was a dramatic success—even a triumph, to suddenly be so alert—though it was a defeat to be dependent on coffee to function. Who knew an office coffee run could be such a critical part of the morning...
...close to you with my words and my prayers." When the initiative failed, Italian television called the church the winner. Three weeks later, Spain legalized gay marriage over Catholic objections and Benedict's (indirect) criticism. But the Italian vote galvanized prelates who had suffered decades of defeat on divorce and abortion and suggested that if Benedict picks his political fights wisely, he may be rewarded...
This month marks the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II, when atom bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki drove Japan to accept defeat in history's bloodiest conflict. Japan has focused on peaceful economic development over the intervening six decades, and can take much of the credit for Asia's 20th century boom. But recent debate over issues such as Japan's bid for a permanent seat on the U.N. Security Council, or reforms to its pacifist constitution to allow a standing army, has made some of its neighbors uneasy...