Word: exitement
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...Bush administration worried about which exit strategy to use in Iraq? All it has to do is break out the old mission accomplished banner. Abid H. Shaikh Karachi, Pakistan...
...reasonable objective/end state, appropriate tasks for the various departments and agencies to achieve the objective, a unified command plan for coordinating the otherwise disparate efforts of the agencies, milestones for achieving tasks, various branches to the plan to accommodate the unexpected, and metrics for judging success, followed by an exit plan. Do you want Iraq to look like Iowa? Or is it sufficient that there are three regions of Iraq [Shi'a, Sunni and Kurd] co-existing in a loose federation with their own militias...
...forces in Iraq for the past year. "Nor would the level of violence be as high as it is today." Chiarelli's call for a new Iraq strategy with an emphasis on jobs and reconstruction, not more troops, came Dec. 12 as he spoke to reporters during an exit interview before handing over his command to Lt. Gen. Raymond Odierno...
...every four years. There was a World Cup, stupid. There was a monthlong celebration of the global game, played to the highest levels, with the usual mixture of sublime skill (the early performances by Argentina and Spain), promise unfulfilled (England's hapless, overpaid team), bad luck (Australia's exit), bad behavior (Portugal) and a controversy for the ages (Zin?dine Zidane's head butt?which, by the way, was the moment when YouTube made it into the consciousness of a whole collection of fogies who had hitherto been blithely unaware of its existence, this writer included.) I loved every minute...
...Still, one thing that does not seem to be at issue in the current episode is that a personality conflict between Bandar and Turki played a big role in his abrupt exit. According to sources close to the family who spoke to TIME, Turki had grown fed up and "angry" that Bandar was still trying to act as Saudi Arabia's point man in dealing directly with President Bush and Vice President Cheney. More general reports of bad blood between the two Saudi princes have also fed rumors that Bandar, also the King's nephew, is positioning himself to replace...