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...East Timorese from both the east and west ends of the country - an acrimonious ethnic divide. But rogue militias are still around, and the police are still drawn mainly from just the west side. Moreover, unemployment is rising ever higher, the judiciary remains weak, and thousands of refugees who fled past fighting continue to languish in makeshift camps nationwide - a tinderbox waiting to explode...
...Surge's Shaky Success Michael Duffy and Mark Kukis wrote an informative article on why the surge has worked [Feb. 11]. However, I feel that your reporters overlooked possibly the most important reason that the violence in Iraq subsided: millions of Iraqi refugees have fled neighborhoods to escape sectarian cleansing. Our military personnel have fought bravely and well during their deployment in Iraq, but much of the sectarian violence has stopped simply because in many Iraqi neighborhoods there aren't any enemies left to kill. Jim Bettag, De Soto...
...military in a civil war in a sovereign nation." But that wouldn't happen to America for another four years. No, the Kosovo intervention seemed to turn out pretty well at the time. Most of the province's exiled Muslims returned home. But most of its Serbs promptly fled. And now the Serbs left behind are lashing out against their new overlords, while the 17,000 NATO peacekeepers who are still there are struggling to quell more instability...
...million Iraqis have fled their country and are living, for the most part, in neighboring Syria and Jordan; about another 2.4 million have left their homes for other areas within Iraq. According to the International Organization for Migration only 22% of internally displaced people in Iraq have regular access to the government food distribution, which is "broken, at best," says the IOM's Dana Graber Ladek, a displacement specialist in Amman. "Security has improved in Baghdad and Anbar, but is the humanitarian crisis over...
...Surge's Shaky Success Michael Duffy and Mark Kukis wrote an informative article on why the surge has worked [Feb. 11]. However, I feel that your reporters overlooked possibly the most important reason that the violence in Iraq subsided: millions of Iraqi refugees have fled neighborhoods to escape sectarian cleansing. Our military personnel have fought bravely and well during their deployment in Iraq, but much of the sectarian violence has stopped simply because in many Iraqi neighborhoods there aren't any enemies left to kill. Jim Bettag, de soto...