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Dates: during 2000-2009
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She denounced America's abortion rate with vehemence and told the group that anyone who supports legalized partial-birth abortion is a "coldhearted extremist" or a "coward." While abortion was her principal target, she sprinkled her outrage all over the place. She went after President Obama, mocking his signature phrase...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Rogue Returns: On the Road with Sarah Palin | 11/11/2009 | See Source »

After the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, I decided to make an intense effort to get to know the U.S. military. My education was turbocharged by General David Petraeus, who invited me to spend some time learning counterinsurgency at Fort Leavenworth, Kans., while he was leading the team that wrote the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Did the Iraq Surge Work? | 11/11/2009 | See Source »

These questions matter, which is why the President's strategy review is so important. Afghanistan, Petraeus has noted, is different from Iraq. It is much poorer, vastly illiterate, governmentally incoherent and spectacularly corrupt - and its President, Hamid Karzai, shows no signs of the growth in office that Iraq's Nouri...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Did the Iraq Surge Work? | 11/11/2009 | See Source »

Although it accepted defeat in its effort to win control of the government at the ballot box, Hizballah has since maneuvered behind the scenes to rig the composition of the Cabinet in its favor. First it demanded veto power over all decisions, but eventually it accepted a compromise formula that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beneath Lebanon's New Political Deal, a Fear of Violence | 11/11/2009 | See Source »

While the Bush Administration regarded the withdrawal of Syria from Lebanon in 2005 - as a result of international pressure and Lebanese street protests - as one of its biggest successes in the Middle East, the new Obama Administration has been less aggressive in its backing for the pro-U.S. Lebanese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beneath Lebanon's New Political Deal, a Fear of Violence | 11/11/2009 | See Source »

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