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...explains. “My size as a forward, 5’9, is not too common in women’s hockey. I’ll be going into the corners, you know, to mix it up—I’ll be using my body to protect the puck...
...could certainly help stanch the flow of jihadis into Iraq. But the deeper problem is inside Iraq itself. Foreign fighters wouldn't last hours in Iraq if the local population was a) sufficiently sympathetic to the U.S. occupation, and b) sufficiently confident in the ability of the U.S. to protect them if they blew the whistle. The same goes for local fighters. Instead, it seems, scores of fighters both local and foreign are able to live and move comfortably among ordinary Iraqis, at least in the Sunni population. And that's an indicator of the depth of the problem...
...militias link to their own communities and political parties. And for the Europeans, the Arabs and UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, the key issue is sovereignty - the best hope for getting Iraqis involved in security is to put Iraqis in charge of the political process they'd be protecting - in other words, they're skeptical of the extent to which Iraqis will be willing to risk their lives to protect an order run by the Coalition Provisional Authority. Expect this debate to intensify in the months ahead...
...Levitte told us that ‘we love the strength of the U.S. military to protect the world,’ but at the same time I don’t think that France is willing to share the risk,” Veenita Kaushik, a local resident and self-described “foreign policy buff,” complained. “France provided the perfect crack for Saddam to manipulate...
...into striking out more forcefully against an enemy hiding in plain sight, they could turn more neutral Iraqis against the occupation. Even the terror attacks have that effect, with numerous reports from reporters on the ground suggesting traumatized Iraqis are often inclined to blame the U.S. for failing to protect them from such attacks - or even for being the cause of such attacks...