Word: protractedness
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Afghanistan is not a photogenic country. Four years of famine, 22 years of war and a repressive, uneducated, fundamentalist regime has not improved its face to the world. It has no oil, and its strategic value was mostly lost after the end of the Cold War. Oil companies would still...
Then comes the commitment - to the long, protracted geopolitical struggle into which the U.S. was rudely inducted Tuesday morning. Government spending - defense, airport security, "homeland defense," even a new sort of Marshall Plan for the Muslim world; public relations is as worthy a war as any. A serious reorganization of...
Understanding the enemy This will be a protracted, complex and unconventional war in which many of the tactics of war as we know it are superfluous. The "Powell Doctrine" - the theory that wars are best won by deploying "overwhelming force" - doesn't apply here, for the simple reason that the...
Still, Arafat's continued relevance in Palestinian politics is now primarily dependent on his ability to reopen the road of diplomacy as a viable route to statehood and an end to the occupation. Not the diplomatic grandstanding of trying to get the world to call Israel names at a racism...
But there is the chance that the Justice Department simply felt that its work was done. Like IBM in the '80s, Microsoft didn?t have to lose its antitrust case to be tamed by the protracted scrutiny - the company has had to be on its best behavior for the past...