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...Afghanistan is not going well. But don't take our word for it. "We're not going to win this war," rues Brigadier Mark Carleton-Smith, Britain's top commander in Afghanistan. The current strategy is "doomed to fail," says the British ambassador Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles. The latest U.S. National Intelligence Estimate notes that the country is in a "downward spiral." Since May, some 180 coalition troops have died in Afghanistan, compared with 120 in Iraq. On Oct. 14, four more NATO soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb...
...inevitable. Brigadier Mark Carleton-Smith, Britain's top military officer in Afghanistan, has said, "We're not going to win this war." At best, he says, international troops can hope to reduce it "to a manageable level of insurgency that's not a strategic threat." U.K. ambassador Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles, in a leaked diplomatic briefing with the French deputy ambassador, is said to have described the current situation in Afghanistan as "bad; the security situation is getting worse - so is corruption - and the government [of President Hamid Karzai] has lost all trust." The American strategy, he said, "is doomed...
...anxiety running higher than in the fortified palaces that house the country's royal rulers. Though the al-Saud dynasty has controlled the country for 72 years, the public is losing faith in its ineffectual governance and doubts its ability to snuff out terrorism. British ambassador to Saudi Arabia Sherard Cowper-Coles calls the terrorist threat "serious and chronic." One Saudi lawyer, Mansour al-Qerni, is even more pessimistic. "Is this going to end, or are my children going to have to accept this as a part of their lives?" Says a Saudi political analyst: "The way people are talking...
...more to be said." But Pearson went ahead anyhow, having long been interested in the complexities of Wilde's character. Although he had never seen him in the flesh, he knew and had talked to many of his cronies-including Lord Alfred ("Bosie") Douglas, Frank Harris and Robert Sherard, all of whom had written Wilde biographies of their...
...stone memorial to the famous mentor will be dedicated in front of the Soldiers Field Locker Building at 11 o'clock. The ceremonies will open with a prayer by the Reverend Sherard Billings, headmaster of Groton School, where Haughton prepared for Harvard. The monument will then be unveiled by some person not yet designated...