Word: vanquish
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...downsizing also has its costs. The first is moral. Obama may be right that the U.S. can't vanquish movements like Hizballah and the Taliban or even an embattled regime like Iran's. Legitimizing them, however, will be hard for some Americans to swallow. Already, hawks have slammed Obama for negotiating with Iran's mullahs while the blood of Iranian protesters is still fresh on their hands. And "reconciliation" with the Taliban, while necessary for the U.S.'s eventual withdrawal from Afghanistan, might be a horror show for Afghan women. It is worth noting that while many historians applaud Nixon...
...elaborate effort to peel back eight years of onion in hopes of finding the war on terrorism's lost inner core: the struggle against al-Qaeda and al-Qaeda alone. That's the subtext underlying his new Afghan strategy. He's raising troop levels, but less to vanquish the Taliban than to gain the leverage to effectively negotiate with them - in hopes of isolating alQaeda from its Afghan allies. He's boosting America's means but narrowing its ends. The same logic underlies his outreach to Iran and Syria and his rhetoric about groups like Hizballah and Hamas. Obama...
...Taliban's local roots, Obama officials suggest, also make it harder to vanquish than al-Qaeda. The implication is that as with Hizballah and Hamas, the U.S.'s only realistic goal is to bring the Taliban into the political process. Despite his decision to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan, Obama has abandoned the goal of making the country Taliban-free. For all the attention it has received, the decision about troop levels is essentially tactical: it's an effort to win the military leverage necessary to persuade elements of the Taliban that they're better off in government...
...they would risk something so huge for something seemingly so unimportant. Nothing is worth irreparable eye damage. But I forgot my shock as I automatically turned with the crowd toward the perfect orange in the sky—eclipse shades luckily donned—and watched the moon ruthlessly vanquish it during the longest total eclipse to occur in Asia for 500 years...
Instead of working to improve living conditions in Gaza, Hamas has used its governing power to launch innumerable terrorist attacks on Israeli civilians and to start a civil war in the West Bank and Gaza to try to vanquish its arch-rival, Fatah. Gaza’s ruling party has been responsible for horrifying atrocities in Israel, including exploding buses and attacks on shopping malls and peaceful religious gatherings. Hamas has been steadfast in its refusal to consider recognizing Israel’s right to exist and has no plans to pursue peace talks with Israel for the good...