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...walk right in." Meeting adversity with a sort of gloomy wit is not a characteristic that always serves Brits well; they sometimes crack jokes when they should be complaining. Yet in this coldest of economic climates, an unquenchable sense of humor is one commodity that won't lose its value...
...Israel A HAWK'S RACE TO LOSE In the run-up to parliamentary elections on Feb. 10, opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu (above, center) is widely considered the favorite to become Israel's next Prime Minister. Most polls put Netanyahu's right-wing Likud Party ahead of Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni's ruling Kadima Party and Defense Minister Ehud Barak's Labor Party, by several seats. Following the war in Gaza, national security has become the campaign's central issue, and Netanyahu has accused his rivals of prematurely ending the offensive against Hamas...
...Part of the reason why he wins is that he's not afraid to lose. He'd rather lose for the right reasons than win for the wrong ones." -Tom Rath, New Hampshire National Republican Committee member. Columbia College Today, July...
...surprisingly, Hamas disputes the Israeli account. One Gaza commander in the Izzedin al-Qassam brigades, Hamas' fighting force, said the Islamists' plan had been to draw Israeli troops into the crowded urban neighborhoods of Gaza City, where the Israelis would lose the protection of helicopter gunships circling overhead. "We were fighting a modern 21st-century army, and we're just a guerrilla resistance movement," he says. "What did you expect - for us to stand in a field and wait for the Israelis to mow us down?" Indeed, in the classic guerrilla playbook, the insurgent army avoids going...
...fail in Afghanistan, it would not be comfortable seeing the U.S. prevail, boosting its position in Moscow's traditional central Asian backyard - where the increasingly competitive geopolitics of energy supplies has ignited a new "great game" battle for influence between the rival powers. While it needs the Taliban to lose, Moscow doesn't necessarily want NATO to win, as such. Instead, it needs the outcome to strengthen Russia's own strategic position in its former Soviet sphere of influence. The Russians have made no secret of their desire to have a greater say in the political outcome in Afghanistan...