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...seems clear that the U.S. needs to deploy additional troops in Iraq and that commanders have repeatedly asked for more manpower. Any military historian knows that a war cannot be won when the enemy is allowed either to rearm or to get money and additional troops on a regular basis. That situation is occurring in Iraq because the U.S. does not have enough troops to close the borders with Syria and Iran. We won't win in Iraq until we have more troops to close its borders. Don Johnson Kirkland, Washington...
...gaming" the U.N., Bush said, by using the oil-for-food program to undermine sanctions. Far from being containable, as Kerry suggested, the report concluded that "Iraq was within striking distance of a de facto end to the sanctions regime," which would have allowed Saddam to break loose and rearm. But the report also noted that Saddam "had no formal written strategy or plan for the revival of WMD after sanctions." As former inspector David Kay noted on the Today show, Saddam "had a lot of intent. He didn't have capabilities. Intent without capabilities is not an imminent threat...
...rebels used the cease-fire's seven-month lull to rearm, recruit and retrain, but nobody expects them to try to march en masse into Kathmandu. Even though they number an estimated 500 commandos, 8,000 regular troops and 20,000-40,000 ragtag militiamen, they would still be no match for Nepal's 68,000 soldiers and 57,000 armed policemen?not in a conventional war. But in a campaign of hit-and-run, the army, stretched thin across the country, cedes the advantage. "The worrying thing for us is the high degree of skill and expertise (the Maoists...
...choice but to take on Hamas. "The Palestinian announcement to freeze all measures against Hamas and Islamic Jihad is ludicrous," said an Israeli intelligence officer, "since there is no activity to freeze." In the Israeli view, the militants had just been using the cease-fire to rest and rearm. According to a senior military official, Hamas has spent the past six weeks planning attacks, stockpiling explosives and improving the range of its rockets. Despite the battering they have given the Palestinian security infrastructure over the past year, Israeli officials insist Dahlan has enough strength to squelch those preparations. "The question...
...further concessions unless they see action. But Abbas refuses to launch a Palestinian civil war, and insists his way is actually working, bringing the calm that almost three years of Israeli military action failed to achieve. The Israelis say the "hudna" simply gives them breathing space to reorganize and rearm, and that without a crackdown the resumption of terror is inevitable. The differences over how the Palestinians proceed on the security front appear to be intractable, at least to the extent that they're left up to the Israelis and Palestinians themselves to resolve. President Bush will now be forced...