Word: retreater
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...need to understand one thing: this war is not the same as Vietnam. Americans' compassion exists side by side with our determination to see this war through to the only possible conclusion: the total defeat of those who seek our destruction. We will not give up, we will not retreat, and we will not be destroyed. ROSALIE CANNONE MCGILL Florham Park...
...Atlantic or Pacific theaters had fundamentally lifted our spirits or given us hope for a quick and decisive victory. The Japanese had destroyed much of our Pacific fleet, Jimmy Doolittle had inflicted only psychological damage during his pilots' "30 seconds over Tokyo" and General MacArthur was forced to retreat from the Philippines...
...Kandahar, the regime's spiritual center, under siege by opposition Pashtun, the Taliban was on the brink of total collapse. But inside the Pentagon, joy was tempered by the grim knowledge of the threats to American forces on the ground. The pace and scale of the Taliban's retreat last week left U.S. special-ops troops scattered throughout a ravaged land that lacks a central governing authority. Dozens of warlords staked claims to their own pieces of turf, and in several cities, ethnic tensions held the potential for fresh violence. And even as the Taliban's supreme leader, Mullah Omar...
...siege of Kandahar was the most convincing sign that the Taliban had come undone. The swiftness of the regime's retreat from the north led some allied commanders to warn that the Taliban was conserving its forces and artillery for a ferocious defense of their southern citadel. But it didn't come. As Pashtun opposition forces encircled the city, the Taliban mustered no more than sporadic skirmishing. That, and the week's long string of northern defeats, convinced anti-Taliban Pashtun that they could take down the core Taliban warriors in the south and persuade the rest to switch sides...
...more inclined to fight to the death, knowing well that the difference between surrender and defiance may simply be the difference between a heroic death and a humiliating one - even though many of their Afghan Taliban comrades may simply surrender. For the movement's surviving leadership, a retreat for the mountains and a protracted guerrilla campaign appears to be the only survival option facing the battered militia, even as a number of its senior leaders were reportedly captured by opposition forces Friday. They've also shrewdly handed over the southern cities to rival Pashtun forces rather than fight them, hoping...