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...limit the U.S. footprint in Afghanistan, the math is working against him, at least in the short term. The additional 17,000 American troops slated to arrive there this year will boost the U.S. force there to about 55,000 troops, even as contingents from Canada and the Netherlands withdraw, giving Washington an even bigger stake in the fighting...
...against the stranger." It didn't hold true in Iraq for long. Three years after the 2003 U.S. invasion, Sunni brothers and their Shi'ite cousins were slaughtering one another while also fighting against the American stranger. The U.S. is now winding down its mission and preparing to withdraw, but has Iraq's family feud been settled...
According to Menand, he and the rest of the Task Force decided to withdraw from the discussion at that point, since they wanted the Faculty to feel as though the curriculum was theirs...
Currently, Quad residents have to walk to either Porter or Harvard Squares to withdraw money—which becomes a problem when students need fast cash at night, when regular shuttle service is not available...
Tahseen al-Sheikaly, a government spokesman for the Baghdad Security Plan, said the renewed violence was in response to al-Maliki's reconciliation efforts as well as U.S. President Barack Obama's plan to withdraw all combat troops by next year. "It appears all these things are not welcomed by Iraq's enemies, and so they are disturbing the security situation," al-Sheikaly said. "But when such pockets of terrorism do something, we follow them and we capture them. In the next few days, you'll hear that we've captured the people who have done these things...