Word: trooped
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...killings. After justifying the attacks on police, the caller appeared to offer a truce. "What we want is peace and tranquility," he said. "We want to achieve a national pact." The government of Felipe Calderón was quick to reject any negotiation with the gangs and ordered a troop surge in Michoacan to 5,500 police and soldiers to fight La Familia. "The federal government does not ever dialogue, does not negotiate, does not reach deals with any criminal organization," Interior Secretary Fernando Gomez Mont said. "The criminal groups that the Mexican government are fighting are made...
...troop is in low spirits. We decide to salve the wound of this failed mission with breakfast. We set up camp in the sun. Bagels and cream cheese all around. What's done is done...
...privately urging Johnson to establish troop level ceilings and to halt the bombings, which McNamara had come to believe were futile. In 1967, he pressed Johnson more firmly to consider a peace settlement. Johnson, believing that McNamara was aiding a presidential bid by Robert F. Kennedy '48, announced in Nov. 1967 that McNamara would be stepping down as defense secretary to head the World Bank...
...want to be able to walk around at midnight and feel safe. Then the Americans should leave.' SHAKER ALWAN, who recently fled his home in Baqubah, Iraq, after four mutilated bodies were dumped nearby, saying the U.S. should consider postponing its planned June 30 troop withdrawal from Iraqi cities...
...Obama Administration's new strategy for Afghanistan. No longer treated as a concern secondary to Iraq, the Afghanistan theater will see the number of American soldiers serving there increase by 17,000 by this fall. And under McChrystal, they'll be waging a different kind of war. Limited troop availability in the past meant that while NATO forces could clear an area of insurgents, they were unable to hold the terrain. Now the plan is for the Marines to set up combat posts in villages to provide the residents with lasting security. Still, some Afghans are skeptical. "I hope this...