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...Middle East and the world—is nothing short of a disaster waiting to happen. On his very first day as Netanyahu’s Foreign Minister, Leiberman announced publicly that “those who want peace should prepare for war” and then went on to say that Israel was in no way bound to the agreements reached at the 2007 Israeli-Palestinian peace conference. I don’t know about you, but I can’t think of a better tone to set for the peace process: This way, the Palestinians will simply...
...Patrick's signing of the budget followed approval by both houses of the Massachusetts legislature, which had disagreed with Patrick over the appropriate response to the state's fiscal crisis. Patrick had originally proposed taxing candy, soda, and gasoline, but eventually went along with the legislature's plan for a sales tax increase after lawmakers agreed to overhaul the state's ethics, pensions, and transportation laws...
...umbrella, U.S. Army General Stanley McChrystal, who recently became ISAF's commander, and that of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, sat down to discuss his new role. Tall, lanky and earnest, with the loping stride of a long-distance runner - McChrystal runs 10 miles before his morning coffee - the general went to Afghanistan after a top job with the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Washington. He knows Afghanistan well. The conflict there, McChrystal told TIME, is a "tough war, a very tough...
That it most certainly is. In October it will have been eight years since U.S. forces first went into combat in Afghanistan against al-Qaeda and its local supporters in the Taliban. That makes the war there the second longest (after Vietnam) in U.S. history. More than 1,200 coalition troops have died in Afghanistan; some 730 of the dead were American, but other nations have suffered too. Britain has lost 175 soldiers in the conflict, and Canada 124. And the deaths in uniform are the easy ones to count: they do not encompass the thousands of Afghan villagers...
...began to throw rocks from an alley at passing soldiers. When the small group of soldiers retreated, the man in front of the protesters threw up his hands in victory to the cheers of the crowd. As a procession of men carrying flower arrangements commemorating the 1999 student uprising went by, a bystander explained that these men were the first to be attacked...