Word: defeatism
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Petraeus and Odierno also realized early on that the insurgents could never be defeated the old-fashioned way. "You cannot kill your way out of an insurgency," Petraeus tells Time. "You're not going to defeat everybody out there. You have to turn them." And many of America's enemies were ripe for turning. Before the surge, elements of al-Qaeda in Anbar province were carrying out grisly atrocities against local Sunnis, including women and children, who refused to join the jihad against Americans. The Sunnis approached the Americans for help, and Petraeus was happy to oblige. The local uprising...
...command could have been derailed on Dec. 14, when the Crimson traveled to New Hampshire riding high on a season-opening 11-game winning streak and holding the top spot in the national rankings. Kessler tied a career worst by giving up four goals in a 4-1 defeat at the hands of the Wildcats. She also recorded eight saves in the loss, seven of which came in the game’s opening period. Harvard lost both its No. 1 ranking and its undefeated record all in one night as it headed into Winter Recess. But both Kessler...
...said Arthur L. Goldhammer, a senior affiliate at CES. “The Socialist Party in particular is deeply divided.” Goldhammer said that Royal’s bid for her party’s nomination exacerbated divisions within the party in the aftermath of her defeat. “She obtained the nomination [despite] the objection of the ‘elephants’ [who] turned on her when she lost the election,” he said, referring to the nickname of the elders of France’s Socialist Party. But Royal?...
...lengthy doubles pro-set—he beat Columbia sophomore Jon Wong by a score of 6-4, 4-6, 6-1. Even before beating Crimson co-captain Dan Nguyen in three sets in the quarterfinal, Wong was a thorn in Harvard’s side. Last year he defeated then co-captain Scott Denenbergy in a two-tiebreak three-setter, but this season he could not defeat Ermakov’s relentless tenacity.Kumar played himself into the semifinals through mounting pain in his back. In the opening round he handily defeated Yale’s No. 1 player, Mike...
...active gay men in the U.S., accompanied by rising syphilis rates, which can complicate treatment. In Africa, Greene says, there are "some islands of success" but troubling increases in HIV transmission in other regions. Public-health experts acknowledge that there is no one magic bullet, no single approach to defeat AIDS, and that even the potential success of prophylactic antiretroviral drugs is only one arrow in the medical quiver. "There are all kinds of variables," Greene cautions, including drug-resistance issues, evolving viruses, individual patterns of infection and complications due to other diseases like herpes, not to mention human behavior...