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...watching. I don't mean just in the United States or Europe. The Taliban is watching, the people of Afghanistan are watching," said McChrystal. On the basis of the Helmand operation, he added, "the Afghans will judge our resolve to see through the new strategy, our resolve to succeed...
...against these short-term military needs lie the questions of how long Britain must commit its troops to succeed in Afghanistan and what success will look like in a country rife with corruption and lawlessness. The head of the British army, Sir Richard Dannatt, has said before that the country should be committed to Afghanistan for the "long haul." On Sunday, Sir Nigel Sheinwald, Britain's ambassador to Washington, put the time frame as "decades...
...wasn't always this way. In the 1970s, burnished by a romanticized image of its members as revolutionaries fighting Francisco Franco's authoritarian regime, ETA assassinated Luis Carrero Blanco, the Prime Minister whom Franco had picked to succeed him. By the end of the decade, it had killed hundreds more people. And in the 1980s, the clandestine organization carried out a series of highly visible attacks: a car bomb parked at a Barcelona department store in 1987 left 21 dead; another, in 1986, exploded as a convoy of civil guards passed, killing...
...orchestrated by Khamenei or his protégés to lend Ahmadinejad more credibility. A political insider in contact with officials in the regime says Khamenei's second son, Mojtaba Khamenei - who holds substantial influence among the ruling clergy and is seen by many as being groomed to succeed the Supreme Leader - still firmly supports the President. "He needs Ahmadinejad around to give himself legitimacy," says the insider. "This is all just a game...
...Stan Shih would like nothing better than to see them succeed. Now retired from Acer, the 64-year-old runs a consulting firm, iD SoftCapital Group, that has raised $30 million to fund the branding efforts of Taiwan companies. "If Acer can do it," he says, "so can others." What's in a name? Possibly the future of Taiwan manufacturing...