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In the early days of the crisis, it was argued that, given the strength of the regime’s air defenses and ground forces, even these limited objectives could not be achieved without fighting an all-out war – and thus causing a net increase in human suffering.
If the rationale for arming the opposition is not so much to win the war as to weaken the government’s resistance to negotiation, it is arguable that the elements of a “hurting stalemate” are already in place, with more weapons likely to produce nothing but more fighting and more casualties.
Dams – provided they are adequately sized and designed – can contribute to human development by fighting climate change and regulating water supply.
British Prime Minister David Cameron has found himself fighting a rearguard action to try to block the appointment of the arch-federalist Luxembourger Jean-Claude Juncker.
Signaling its opposition, the California legislature recently introduced for consideration new bills to finance legal services for immigrants fighting deportation and to ban the use of state and local resources for immigration enforcement on constitutional grounds.
In September, the United Nations General Assembly convened two high-level meetings – one on ending tuberculosis (TB), and the other on fighting noncommunicable diseases (NCDs).
The armed forces’ role in fighting narcotics – which has been ineffective in every country where it has been tried – is encouraged by a coercive, misguided, bipartisan US strategy.
As the fighting back home drags on, the risk that refugees will never be able to integrate into a stable society is growing.
The East Asian Summit is becoming a forum for region-wide security discussions, from the resolution of maritime disputes to fighting pirates.
And some are trying to reform their police and adopt a more strategic approach to fighting drug trafficking and organized crime.
And yet despite Russia’s brutal intervention in Donbas, the Minsk Protocol to end the fighting there has more or less held.
Thus, fighting Al Qaeda is not a war.
They also are fighting the proposed takeover of US ports by a Dubai company, because they fear terrorists could gain vital intelligence from the investments.
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has rightly allowed convoys of food and medicine into Gaza during the fighting, and Israeli hospitals are treating several injured Gazan citizens.
Demobilization of one large rebel army, the EPL, was so recent a memory that progress with the other two main guerrilla forces fighting in the country’s seemingly endless guerrilla wars seemed certain.
Now, faced with an alarming risk of a renewed escalation of fighting, it’s time for the United Nations Security Council to step in to end the bloodshed, based on a new framework agreed by the Council’s permanent members.
Its leaders can begin fighting the cancer of an unsustainable status quo, with all the pain and uncertainty that such a struggle entails; or they can wait for the cancer to become a terminal condition, and be devoured by it.
It may seem paradoxical, but fighting extremism in Germany may demand less political centrism.
While the West is busy fighting the Taliban, the Russians, like the other regional powers, are building roads and electricity stations, and conceiving regional diplomatic solutions to what has become a Vietnam-like quagmire for the West.
The United States opposed Pakistan’s development of nuclear weapons, but was slow to act, owing to its desire in the 1980s for Pakistani support in fighting the Soviet Union’s occupation of Afghanistan.
This year in Yemen (a predominantly Sunni country), a Saudi-led coalition is fighting the Zaydi Shia Houthi rebels, whom Iran armed in order to take over the country and gain a foothold on the Arabian Peninsula.
Thousands of people have been killed in Ukraine since 2013, and more are dying in renewed fighting today.
Generating and harnessing top level political commitment to engage societies ravaged by HIV/AIDS is critical to fighting this battle successfully.
An ongoing US troop presence is also required to maintain coordination with Syrian Kurdish forces, who did most of the fighting against ISIS.
It is time to heed the fundamental laws of economics and put a stop to the imprudence that those charged with fighting the crisis have been allowed to get away with.
Moreover, if culprits were fighting the police, one would expect to see a sharp rise in the number of police officers who are wounded or killed.
The large coalition now fighting terrorism is one way to demonstrate this.
Deserting the Battle for BritainSAINT PIERRE D’ENTREMONT, FRANCE – In the sad state of affairs following the Brexit vote in the United Kingdom, former “Remainers” – those who wished to stay in the EU – seem to have given up altogether on fighting for the future of their country.
Every year, the West spends billions of dollars on defense relationships and on fighting terrorism.
Yet the very thing we are fighting is given license to grow in the education systems of many of the countries with which we are engaged – even in our own.
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