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...office heap this year, with over $1.3 billion in domestic revenues already on the books and several high-buzz flicks--including the just-released Bond remake Casino Royale and next month's The Pursuit of Happyness starring audience favorite Will Smith as a homeless father--expected to add significantly to that total. ( Spider-Man 3 unspools next spring...
...that either side has much latitude here anyway. In a pair of hearings last Wednesday that seemed to produce little news, CENTCOM boss Gen. John Abizaid made it remarkably clear that he didn't see any good options. He said that he didn't want to add more troops (except to train Iraqis) because the Maliki government would never take responsibility for security if he did. But he doesn't want to draw forces down either. Why? He said that none - as in zero - of the nearly 100 already trained Iraqi army units were ready to operate independent...
...Iraq policy; Henry Kissinger, a man who has some experience with ill-conceived military operations, has declared Iraq a failure; Tom Ricks, the Washington Post's peerless Pentagon reporter, this morning disclosed the Joint Chiefs' three-option approach for what to do next (no big surprises there: stay put, add troops, get out); and in a few weeks, the commission headed by former Secretary of State James Baker and former Indiana Democrat Lee Hamilton, will brief the President and then the public on its findings...
...Iraq policy; Henry Kissinger, a man who has some experience with ill-conceived military operations, has declared Iraq a failure; Tom Ricks, the Washington Post's peerless Pentagon reporter, this morning disclosed the Joint Chiefs' three-option approach for what to do next (no big surprises there: stay put, add troops, get out); and in a few weeks, the commission headed by former Secretary of State James Baker and former Indiana Democrat Lee Hamilton will brief the President and then the public on its findings...
...that either side has much latitude here anyway. In a pair of hearings last Wednesday that seemed to produce little news, CENTCOM boss Gen. John Abizaid made it remarkably clear that he didn't see any good options. He said that he didn't want to add more troops (except to train Iraqis) because the Maliki government would never take responsibility for security if he did. But he doesn't want to draw forces down either. Why? He said that none - as in zero - of the nearly 100 already trained Iraqi army units were ready to operate independent...