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...picking up momentum: last week the Pentagon announced plans to trim the number of U.S. troops in Iraq from 150,000 to 105,000 by early next year, a move that reflects the improved capabilities of the Iraqi forces. The top commander of U.S. ground forces in Iraq, Lt. Gen. John R. Vines, said that "very much sooner rather than later, Iraq will be able to provide for its own security...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking Back Iraq's Streets | 3/19/2005 | See Source »

...would come. Journalists on the call, most of them from the Senator's home state of New York, at first focused on questions pertaining to Clinton's trip, allowing her a chance to praise the hard work of all Americans serving in Iraq and talk about her meetings with Lt. Gen. David Petraeus, who is in charge of training Iraqi troops, Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi and a lunch with ten marines from New York. And then came to the only query anyone was truly interested in: Hillary in 2008? "I'm very focused on doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Capital Letters: Ted Kennedy Talks | 2/23/2005 | See Source »

...security situation in Iraq remains perilous to the point that the commander of U.S. ground forces in Iraq, Lt. Gen. Thomas Metz, admitted last week that right now, security conditions in four Iraqi provinces militated against holding elections. Those four provinces, of course, include Baghdad, and between them house as much as half of Iraq's population. There will be a limited number of polling stations even in some of the most dangerous regions, but it's also relatively certain that the raging insurgency - and the political opposition to the poll among some Sunni groups - will keep hundreds of thousands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq's Imperfect Election | 1/12/2005 | See Source »

...refuge inside the walls of his hotel. As genocidal Hutu extremists massed along the Mille Collines’ perimeter, Rusesabagina called for help. The US and its allies in the UN Security Council shamelessly ignored Rusesabagina’s cry. The top UN peacekeeper in Rwanda at the time, Lt. Gen. Romeo Dallaire, recounts in his memoirs: “the people in the Mille Collines were like live bait being toyed with by a wild animal, at constant risk of being killed and eaten...

Author: By Daniel J. Hemel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Rwanda' Turns Back to Genocide | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

Oliver’s real-life counterpart, Canadian Lt. Gen. Romeo Dallaire, now holds a visiting fellow post at Harvard’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. Dallaire’s journey from the Heart of Darkness to the halls of Harvard is worthy of a film in its own right...

Author: By Daniel J. Hemel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Character Left Behind | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

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