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...LONG AGO, THE GOAL OF U.S. FORCES IN Iraq sounded straightforward: liberate the country and turn it over to the Iraqi people. Now U.S. strategy is a vast, many-headed monster: disarm or kill the insurgents, hunt down al-Qaeda, rebuild the electrical and energy grids, establish civilian order, work with political parties to speed a stand-alone government, keep an eye out for Iranian influence--and try not to get killed in the process. According to Kagan, the newly enlarged forces would reorder those priorities and make protecting the Iraqi people Job One. How? With what retired Lieut. General...
...original Nixon Doctrine didn't turn out that well either. When American troops left, South Vietnam crumbled. The Shah of Iran, America's bulwark against Soviet meddling in the Persian Gulf, used the threat of communist subversion to establish a dictatorship. A few years later, the ayatullahs were in power...
...around Mogadishu. By evening, Aidid indicated the government realized it had been over-ambitious, saying it had called an emergency meeting Wednesday to hammer out a new disarmament plan and adding that the government would now be happy with a three-month process. Asked why this new try to establish a national government in Somalia would succeed when so many previous attempts had failed, Aidid replied: "This is a great chance. It is not an easy process. Reconciliation must be very aggressive." It's that last sentence that worries Somalia...
...Awami League also accuses the BNP of altering the voter roll before leaving office, removing the names of its supporters while entering the names of BNP voters multiple times. The BNP concedes there are problems with the roll but denies manipulating it. "They cannot really establish it, number one," says BNP joint secretary general Nazrul Islam Khan of the Awami League's allegations. "Number...
...factor in their decision-making, because they recognize it’s in the long-term interest of both Harvard and Cambridge,” said Councillor Brian P. Murphy ’86-’87 in an interview. Decker said that the next president should establish a “deep commitment into seeing that the Cambridge Public Schools are the best in the country,” proposing that the University both increase its funding to the schools, and establish a committee to organize and fund faculty projects in Cambridge. “We?...