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...aimed at militant leaders carried out by special forces and drone attacks. Superficially, this sounds reasonable. But it has a back-to-the-future flavor because it is more or less the exact same policy that the Bush Administration followed in the first years of the occupation: a light footprint of several thousand U.S. soldiers who were confined to counterterrorism missions. That approach helped foster the resurgence of the Taliban, which continues to receive material support from elements in Pakistan. If a pared-down counterterrorism strategy works no better the second time around, will we have to invade Afghanistan...
...years, funding cuts have eviscerated it down to little more than a contract-management agency. USAID officials, who did not make themselves available for this article, told Congress this past summer that they are rapidly staffing up for Afghanistan and Pakistan, where the agency may soon have its biggest footprint since Vietnam. Currently the dependence on highly paid consultants means at least half of every development dollar stays...
...bank. But for much of the past 20 years, HSBC has expended a lot of its energy striving to be more than an Asian institution. With major acquisitions in the U.K., the U.S. and elsewhere, HSBC grew into one of the world's largest banks, with a truly international footprint. Since 1993, the Hong Kong stalwart has had its global headquarters in London...
...with all institutions, there is still more Harvard can do to preserve the environment. Steps including turning off sprinklers during rainstorms, automatically placing computers on standby mode when unused, and increasing vegetarian dining choices can further reduce our footprint and help us achieve President Faust’s goal of reducing Harvard’s greenhouse-gas footprint 30 percent by 2016. That being said, creative ideas such as changing the treatment of our grass are encouraging signs that we will reach, if not surpass, this target...
...dilemma is this: If he chooses to send more troops, he will have near united Republican support but will divide his own party; if he decides against a counterinsurgency strategy, he will be reversing a campaign promise uniting Democrats, the majority of whom are opposed to an expanded U.S. footprint in Afghanistan. (Read "Afghanistan: Looking for the Way Ahead...