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...saddle bow, circle the flag at the opposite end of the field and drop it back in the original chalk circle to score. What makes it difficult is that every other man on the field - and at big events they may number in the hundreds - will do anything to prevent that from happening. I've met quite a few politicians in Kabul who identify with that horseman hauling the calf around...
...Washington's permission to get involved. But even though Iran traditionally wields greater influence over the Shi'ite parties that dominate Iraq's government, it may have little to offer in the immediate crisis of sectarian escalation. Likewise Syria, whose contribution would be largely to tighten border security to prevent the trickle of foreign jihadists into the territory of its neighbor, may not be able to effect events on the ground as much it might like to think...
...thought that external circumstances were going to prevent me from me being able to do it,” Anene said last night. “I just really thought I wasn’t going to be here...
...Exit Signs Re "5 Ways to Prevent Iraq from Getting Even Worse" [Oct. 30]: Your recommendations contained one major flaw. They would be implemented by an Administration that has proved its total incompetence. The U.S. is part of the problem, not the solution. Only an approach that transfers all decision making to non-Americans has any hope of success. Ideally, that would mean Iraqis, but the current situation is so chaotic that external assistance is a necessity. President George W. Bush and his cronies have messed up so badly that the only reasonable first step is a U.S. mea culpa...
...fails in Iraq - and ends up providing al-Qaeda and its allies the kind of sanctuary in Iraq that they once enjoyed in Afghanistan. But that's a problem the military wouldn't mind having. For as long as the U.S. is bogged down trying to prevent Iraq from further degrading, the odds of achieving any kind of lasting success in Afghanistan are pretty slim...