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...April, the U.S. will deploy a mini-surge of 3,200 marines to boost the overstretched coalition military units already in place. While the troop commitment is welcome, it may also trigger a rise in attacks such as the strike on the Serena. "The Taliban cannot fight us face to face. So they continue killing people this way," says Amrullah Saleh, head of Afghanistan's National Directorate for Security, which is investigating the attack. "An enemy who cannot hold territory, an enemy who can find no refuge among the people, has no other recourse but suicide bombing...
...Despite personal opinion on the decision to invade Iraq, the alarming rate at which casualties have been escalating is undeniable. Though it was extremely unpopular at the time, in 2006 Sen. McCain alone offered his recommendation to deploy more troops to the region...
...challenge of selling the European piece of the U.S. missile shield, which expands on already existing missile-defense sites in Alaska and California, even tougher. The threat of the "mullahs' nukes" has been the mainstay of the case made by U.S. officials to justify the European missile-defense deployment. "Iran is pursuing the technology that could be used to produce nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles of increasing range that could deliver them," President Bush told a military audience October 23. "Today we have no way to defend Europe against the emerging Iranian threat, and so we must deploy a missile...
...hold their breath. Just as there were signs of cooling tempers among rioting youths, French President Nicolas Sarkozy vowed that he planned to hunt them down and haul them to court. His first move was to visit police officers injured by rioters, promising "we'll find the shooters, and deploy whatever means that requires." "That's not something we can tolerate," Sarkozy continued. "It's got a name: attempted murder...
...most of the last six months, the Giuliani high command has spent considerable time trying to decide how to deploy its most precious assets - its money, its best organizers and the candidate himself - in the early primary states. It has been a complex - and shifting - calculation for a Republican who got in relatively late, comes from a blue city in a blue state, tilts to the center on abortion and homosexuality and has a name that ends with a vowel. And so, Team Giuliani has already passed through several stages on the path to nirvana...