Word: withdrawals
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...political victory remains questionable [April 21]. The Bush Administration never understood the culture and did not study the history of the Middle East. U.S. forces are basically a Christian army waging war in an Islamic country. That was, is and always will be a formula for disaster. We should withdraw and let the Iraqis settle their sectarian differences without outside interference. Joseph Rizzuto, Los Gatos, California...
...political victory remains questionable [April 21]. The Bush Administration never understood the culture and did not study the history of the Middle East. We are basically a Christian army waging war in an Islamic country. That was, is and always will be a formula for disaster. We should withdraw and let the Iraqis settle their sectarian differences without outside interference. Joseph Rizzuto, LOS GATOS, CALIF...
Some U.S. troop commanders also foresee an indefinite dependence. "When we can adjust and withdraw [from Babil province] is really conditions-based," says Colonel Thomas James, refusing to speculate on a date. Despite this, James, like many of his high-ranking colleagues, insisted that the focus should be on progress made. "Four years after my first deployment, it's amazing to see how much progress has been made," he said. But with the American praise of Iraqi troop performance far outshining the reality on the ground, it seems unlikely that Iraqi forces will be able to catch up with their...
...daughter of Sri Lankan immigrants to the United States, her father a doctor and her mother a school teacher. She goes to university, where she studies incessantly and makes only one friend—in fact, he makes her his friend by refusing to allow her to withdraw from him as she did from all of her other fellow classmates. While one can relate to her sensitive and perceptive mind, her extreme and, at times, self-righteous reticence proves frustrating. After 9/11, she perceives only her desire for solitude as true:the wants of other students are frivolous...
...infidels] will always be an enemy and you will remain so until the last drop of my blood," Sadr said in a statement responding to the comments by Gates. "If you don't withdraw from our land or set a timetable for withdrawal acceptable to the Iraqi people, we will resist...