Word: defeatist
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John McCain has made a point throughout his campaign of pooh-poohing Barack Obama's promise to withdraw all U.S. combat forces from Iraq within 16 months of assuming office. McCain has steadfastly refused to set a withdrawal date, suggesting that to do so would be defeatist and vowing instead to bring the troops back when they've won. During Wednesday's debate, McCain saw progress in the fact that U.S. and Iraqi negotiators are close to reaching a Status of Forces agreement governing the future presence of U.S. troops there. But the agreement they're reportedly close to concluding...
...fundamental change. "You cannot treat the two sides of the border as two different war zones," says Jehanzeb Raja, a retired brigadier who served in the tribal areas. "The Pakistan Army's aversion to any Predator or missile strike into Pakistan territory to kill the Taliban is tactically defeatist in essence, and strategically flawed in concept," he recently wrote in a local newspaper. "The Pakistan Army not only lacks any worthwhile real-time surveillance capability to pursue multiple targets in these remote regions, it also lacks the means to destroy these through long-range precision weapons...
Looking beyond the election: Assuming that Mugabe rigs the vote and wins or that you win but the military tries to prevent you from taking power, what do you plan to do? Well, our plan is always to fight on. It is not a defeatist attitude, and anyone who suggests that we are going to give up because the military has refused us power, that we will just give up and forget about it - we will not do that. We will isolate the regime until they realize that what they are doing is unsustainable. So the struggle continues...
...known for quite some time: that what we are doing is working. In fact, we have had many successes since 2003, and we continue to go forward with our mission. I wonder when the pundits and politicians will apologize to the American people for being so wrong-headed and defeatist. More important, when will the same folks apologize to those of us here making it happen...
While these goals may seem modest, and somewhat defeatist for a sports team about to enter its biggest meet of the year, they are anything but. Harvard has battled with a lack of numbers all season, constantly failing to fill all of the spots available for its athletes...