Word: iraq
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Matthew P. Cavedon ’11 said he enjoyed the event but had some reservations. “I would have liked a more comprehensive view on the Middle East, maybe more on Iraq or stability in countries like Jordan,” he said of the debate’s focus on Israel...
...world for their work. Please keep reading.The best way of understanding my argument is to imagine some of the Republican ticket’s policies as catalysts for the creation of art. For example, let’s start with one of the more obvious inspirations: the Iraq War.McCain has made it clear to every Joe-the-Plumber that we will not be sissies in Iraq and won’t go home until we have achieved his vague idea of “victory.” This being so, we could anticipate this war to drag out even...
...Beyond issues of style, we back Senator Obama on his content as well: We agree that moving troops out of Iraq and into Afghanistan will help to stabilize Afghanistan and restore some sense of stability in the midst of an ongoing civil war. We find Obama’s plans for a relatively rapid withdrawal from Iraq to be sensible, especially considering the fact that the Iraqi government is running a massive budget surplus while the American treasury is suffering from record budget deficits...
...Faced with America’s collapsing economy, our unsustainable addiction to foreign oil, our inefficient and inequitable health care system, our forgotten war in Afghanistan and our mistaken war in Iraq, and our declining moral standing in the international community, we cannot afford to throw our hands up and offer the excuse that government cannot solve the problems it helped create...
...When I interviewed him on Oct. 18, Obama said he was "happy" that General David Petraeus was at Central Command, supervising the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Last June, Obama told me that he would want "people like" Secretary of Defense Robert Gates in his Cabinet. Petraeus is studying the options in Afghanistan, with the goal of producing a detailed action plan for the next President by the end of December. It is likely the general will recommend the resumption of troop withdrawals from Iraq on something resembling the Obama timetable. Indeed, Iraq has slipped down the list of national...