Word: reared
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...weeks of bristling at complaints about the campaign's sluggishness, the Pentagon may have finally concluded that the best way to silence the grumbling is to heed it. Rumsfeld and his generals say there has been no abrupt shift in strategy. "We're in the driver's seat," says Rear Admiral John Stufflebeem. But now the commanders are stepping on the accelerator. As many as 100 commandos are already on Afghan soil and hooking up with Northern Alliance forces. The "forward air controllers" among them call in B-52 strikes to pound Taliban positions without hitting Alliance troops. Until...
...where they're at their most vulnerable - in the former Northern Alliance stronghold of Mazari al-Sharif - let alone from Kabul. The Northern Alliance have not proved to be quite as fearsome a force as the Pentagon may have hoped, while the Taliban have proved far more so, as Rear Admiral John Stufflebeem admitted last week. And the bombing thus far has failed to provoke the mass defections from the Taliban in the south for which U.S. planners had clearly hoped. Indeed, most reports from inside Afghanistan suggest the bombing has had the opposite effect, rallying many uncommitted Afghan groups...
...usually don't get lucky, so you just keep pressing on." Pentagon officials have said some ground operations aimed at crushing the Taliban and al-Qaeda may not get under way until next spring. "We're not setting timetables," Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Thursday. In a remarkable admission, Rear Admiral John Stufflebeem said, "I am a bit surprised at how doggedly they're hanging onto power. We definitely need to have patience," he added. "This is going to be a long, long campaign...
...Staying on message The images of U.S. Army Rangers moving unmolested into Kandahar had raised unrealistic expectations among an impatient American public. That may be why Rear-Admiral John Stufflebeem told a midweek briefing, "I'm a bit surprised at how doggedly (the Taliban) are hanging on to power? They have proven to be tough warriors." At the same time, British chief of staff Admiral Sir Michael Boyce warned that hit-and-run commando operations would not be enough to get bin Laden, suggesting that raids behind enemy lines would have to last days or even weeks. But when Defense...
...Salvador. Along the city's grimy main artery, Calle Ruben Dario, homeless people are camped out in a clutter of cardboard boxes. Suddenly a caravan of vehicles wheel up, and a handful of youths pile out. They begin ladling plates of steaming beans and rice from kettles in the rear of a pickup truck...