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...effectiveness of President Bush’s troop surge last year. “The simplest answer ought to be that is just hasn’t worked,” Krahel said. “No matter how many facts show that the surge is successful on a basic statistical sense, Iraqis are still fine with the killing of American troops, and if this is true, the surge just isn’t working.” But the Republicans said they saw things differently, describing the military success of the surge as a necessary step to achieving political...
...just in Beijing but also by the words and actions of a man who protects his people from afar, in his exile home in the northern-India hill station of Dharamsala. As a Buddhist monk, the Dalai Lama speaks unstintingly on behalf of all people's rights to basic freedoms of speech and thought-though as a Buddhist monk, he also holds staunchly to the view that violence can never solve a problem deep down. If the bloodshed gets out of control, he said in recent days, he will step down as political leader-a symbolic act, really, since...
...going and looting every government building that they could find. There was a lot of outrage and horror at this internationally, but I could understand where these people were coming from. I think they felt that this was their opportunity to take from the government. Yes, there was some basic criminal urge with some people, but for a lot of people it was a sense of vengeance. They couldn't get their hands on Saddam Hussein. They couldn't get their hands on the Baath party commanders who had oppressed them for so long, so they would steal the furniture...
...succeed The most important thing as a parliamentarian, the most important thing after securing the area is the service - giving service to people, electricity. Improving the basic services to people. The humanitarian [effort], water supply, making sure to make any effort to bring the people that have been misplaced because of the terror attacks back to their homes because this will help in the reconciliation process. When you have the people back to their area, they will feel back to normal. These issues have...