Word: protractedness
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The Iraq war is over, remarkably quickly and with remarkably few coalition casualties. Of course, continuing hostility to U.S. troops among substantial sections of the Iraqi population suggests that tens of thousands of American soldiers may have to remain there on a protracted and often messy stabilization mission. But even...
He notes that casting for Better Luck Tomorrow, which took three months, was such a protracted process primarily because “Asian-American actors in Los Angeles aren’t even aware of the roles out there, they’re so used to the shitty roles, the...
The Administration has operated by the simple equation that Iraqis who loathe Saddam would welcome America as liberator. Yet many Iraqis don't much like the U.S. They blame America for a harsh decade of suffering under economic sanctions that destroyed their livelihoods but not Saddam's power. Like most...
Saddam's loyalists are ultimately no match for the forces the U.S. is able to bring to the battlefield. But fierce resistance by dispersed enemy forces, the growing possibility of a bloody and protracted battle for Baghdad, and the mounting hostility towards the U.S. action in the Arab and Muslim...
The bombing of Baghdad had started at 5:30am local time when as many as two dozen cruise missiles struck at what Pentagon officials described as "leadership targets" - some 90 minutes after the expiration of President Bush's deadline for Saddam to depart Iraq to avoid war. Bush addressed the...