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That task is more difficult because the 1/12 battalion hasn't exactly had a terrific rotation in Afghanistan. "We've been asked to do a lot of different things," says Major Korey Brown, the battalion's executive officer. "They detached us from our brigade, which is headquartered in eastern Afghanistan, and sent us out here to Zhari district to be storm troopers - that's what General Vance called us - and that's what we were trained for, that's what we like to do. To find, fix and finish the enemy." But the mission changed with the arrival of General...
...given their propensity for violence and peremptory taxation, but more trustworthy than a deeply corrupt Afghan government and much more familiar than the foreign troops. Senjaray is the largest population center, a town of somewhere from 8,000 to 12,000 (there hasn't been a census), at the eastern end of the Zhari district. If Senjaray can't be won over, Kandahar...
...with Israel. Many disparate terrorist groups engage in frequent internecine bloodletting, but they all have in common a fierce hatred of both the U.S. and Israel. Terrorism is a grave national security threat to the U.S. and an existential one to Israel. Hence, the support of a stable Middle Eastern democracy that has reliably sided with the U.S. is crucial to American strategic interests...
With Friday’s win, the Scarlet Raiders clinched first place in the Hay Division of the Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association, in which only two teams from the division make the playoffs. The losses dropped Harvard into third place in the Hay, behind Rutgers-Newark and Sacred Heart—which will visit Cambridge next weekend...
...Both sets of issues, supercharged by the Tea Party movement, provoked the kind of reaction in New Orleans that Republican leaders have seen around the country - raw, intense and emotional. In the past, appeals to the pocketbook and concerns over Middle Eastern alliances have not always stirred the same kind of passions that are sparked by talk of late-term abortions and gay marriage. But something about Barack Obama and his economic and security policies (not to mention his style and agenda) seem to inflame the American right in a way that equals - and perhaps exceeds - the ire inspired...