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It is the signature wound of the Iraq war: limb loss. The potency of insurgent bombs and the proficiency of U.S. lifesavers have produced this result. Of the 20,322 Americans wounded in action, 436 have been amputees--more than 2%, a figure higher than in every war of the...
Chávez has long been an insurgent. He grew up idolizing his great-grandfather, who went into the mountains to lead a revolt against an early 20th century Venezuelan dictator, and Simón Bolívar, South America's 19th century independence hero. "Chávez has always seen himself as that...
The U.S. certainly has its own plan for turning things around in Iraq; the problem is finding an Iraqi leader willing or able to implement it. Washington recognizes that defeating the insurgency requires political concessions to the Sunni community, in which the insurgency is deeply rooted - the latest Pentagon polling...
If Karzai's enemies are, indeed, on the run, events over the past week suggest they are far from being defeated. Besides the two suicide attacks in the capital and insurgent attacks scattered throughout the south and west, Taliban forces have mounted a surprisingly strong resistance to an ongoing NATO...
It is true that the latest Baghdad security plan - which has seen several thousand American and Iraqi troops isolating and searching the city's most dangerous neighborhoods - has reduced the violence here for the moment. But over and over again Iraq's insurgents have shown the willingness to bide their...