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...hope Petraeus succeeds, for the sake of the terrorized citizens of Baghdad. Most military experts fear that he won't. "If this is Plan B, we'd better start working on Plan C," says Andrew Krepinevich, a leading military thinker. Plan C has to be a smart, detailed withdrawal from Iraq that doesn't leave chaos and regional war in its wake. I wish Petraeus were working on that rather than on Bush's futile pipe dream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Good General, Bad Mission | 1/12/2007 | See Source »

...hope Petraeus succeeds, for the sake of the terrorized citizens of Baghdad. Most military experts fear that he won't. "If this is Plan B, we'd better start working on Plan C," says Andrew Krepinevich, a leading military thinker. Plan C has to be a smart, detailed withdrawal from Iraq that doesn't leave chaos and regional war in its wake. I wish Petraeus were working on that rather than on Bush's futile pipe dream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Good General, Bad Mission | 1/12/2007 | See Source »

China doesn't support unsavory regimes for the sake of it. Instead China's key objective is to ensure a steady supply of natural resources, so that its economy can sustain the growth that officials hope will keep a lid on unrest at home. That is why China has reached out to resource-rich democracies like Australia and Brazil as much as it has to such international pariahs as Sudan and Burma, both of which have underdeveloped hydrocarbon reserves. There's nothing particularly surprising about any of this; it is how all nations behave when domestic supplies of primary goods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China Takes on the World | 1/11/2007 | See Source »

Bionade's founders don't dream of global conquest for its own sake. They speak passionately about what they describe as the drink's deeper meaning. "Bionade is a totally idealistic product. Of course we want to make money, but honestly, this was an attempt to give people something better," says Bionade's ceo, Peter Kowalsky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Brand-New Brew | 1/9/2007 | See Source »

...putting more troops into Iraq if there is a solid military reason for doing that, if there is something to be gained," Gen. James Conway, who became Commandant of the Marine Corps six weeks ago, said to reporters recently. "We do not believe that just adding numbers for the sake of adding numbers - just thickening the mix - is necessarily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Skepticism from the Military on an Iraq Surge | 1/4/2007 | See Source »

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