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Since it's an opening salvo in what promises to be a long, hard-fought year, McChrystal knew Operation Moshtarak would influence perceptions, among allies and enemies alike, about how the war would be fought - and how the peace would be waged. Managing those perceptions would be key to victory. "This is not a physical war, in terms of how many people we kill or how much ground you capture, how many bridges you blow up," he told reporters in Istanbul on Feb. 4. "This is all in the minds of the participants. The Afghan people are the most important...
...felt the team had a good showing this weekend,” junior Alexei Chijoff-Evans said. “Everybody fought and played hard, but luck just wasn’t on our side...
...fought really hard,” junior Aba Omedele-Lucien said. “The performance was pretty good, but we just didn’t get the wins in the right spots...
...really good game, back and forth,” Griffin said. “It literally came down to the last few minutes, which was exciting—they fought really hard...
...Sudan's other great unresolved conflict - between Khartoum and the south of the country - another kind of election, a referendum, on whether to secede from the north, is due next year. The north and the south have fought two wars in the last half-century that have killed 2 million people, and an overwhelming majority of southerners are expected to opt for their own independent state. The approaching reality of that separation seems to have persuaded Sudan to accept what previously provoked them into war. Last month, Bashir announced that if the south did vote...