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...what is being billed as the largest military operation in Afghanistan since the U.S.-led invasion in 2001, 20,000 coalition troops are set to invade Marja, a Taliban stronghold in the country's southern Helmand province. The offensive will target Taliban fighters who for years have holed up with the area's narcotics traffickers, planning and carrying out suicide and roadside bomb attacks. U.S. officials took the unusual step of announcing the mission ahead of time, saying the element of surprise was not as important as reassuring citizens that the Afghan government will be there for them once...
...occasion is piled high with difficulty," said Abraham Lincoln at a moment of supreme peril to American democracy, "and we must rise with the occasion." Notice: he said we must rise. But that requires, if nothing else, a sense of shared values. Few paid much attention last December as Southern Republicans in the Senate blocked a $14 billion federal rescue of GM and Chrysler. That lawmakers representing states with nonunion foreign-auto plants should blame organized labor for not slashing worker benefits to levels offered by Nissan hardly came as a shock...
...spent about five days with the medevacs operating out of Kandahar airfield in southern Afghanistan. There I met Chief Warrant Officer 2 Jessie Russell, a female pilot flying Black Hawks to pick up the injured. I love meeting strong, smart women doing unconventional jobs. Last April, when I was in Kandahar on another embed, I bumped into her in the cafeteria, and the encounter sparked my interest in following the medevacs once again. A few months later, I got my shot...
...asked to cast 12 separate votes for various national and regional institutions - and the competence of the election officials. And a poll alone can hardly turn the south into a fully functioning nation. After decades of war and chronic underdevelopment, David Gressly, the U.N.'s regional coordinator for southern Sudan, reckons that it will take billions more dollars in aid and another "10 to 15 to 20 years" of international assistance to get the place on its feet. But after more than half a century of suffering in Sudan, the approach of two votes is achieving far more than sanctions...
...hours of negotiations with his coalition partners in the Hague, Balkenende's efforts failed and with that came the collapse of his coalition government. New elections are expected within three months, and the Netherlands will now pull its contingent out of Afghanistan by December, leaving a vacuum in the southern Uruzgan province...