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  • The End of the Beginning

    10/15/2005 11:54:50 PM PDT · by Maynerd · 9 replies · 665+ views
    The Belmont Club ^ | 10/15/05 | Wretchard
    In a situation rich with irony, voting was heavy in the former rebel stronghold of Fallujah, secured by the USMC in November 2004. Most of the Fallujans chose to reject the proposed Iraqi constitution, though the nationwide results are expected to heavily confirm it. US Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad didn't seem to mind whether people voted for or against the proposed constitution, so long as they voted. "With hours to go before the polls closed Saturday, U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad made his first trip to Fallujah since he took over the post in July. ... Khalilzad congratulated residents on their participation...
  • The end of the beginning (IRAQ)

    02/05/2005 4:28:47 PM PST · by MadIvan · 7 replies · 491+ views
    Scotland on Sunday ^ | February 6, 2005 | Colin Freeman
    WITH a cheerfulness that months of bombs and bullets had largely banished, shopkeeper Ahmad Saleh held up his ink-stained forefinger and smiled."Yes, of course I voted," he said, pointing to the bruise-like splotch of purple across his nail. "Everybody in my neighbourhood was afraid, but I persuaded them - in the end five families came to vote along with me." Across much of Iraq last week, the stain of indelible ink used to mark voters’ fingers as they entered the polling stations became an unlikely new status symbol. In a land where standing is traditionally accorded to guns, land or...
  • End of the beginning of the war on terror (Excellent Editorial)

    04/15/2004 4:26:24 PM PDT · by Eurotwit · 23 replies · 154+ views
    The Telegraph ^ | 16/04/2004 | Editorial staff
    After a spell of what seemed incorrigible chaos in the war on terror, there are glimmerings of serious change and even hope. Three significant events have occurred that may well herald the beginning, if not of the end, of a different phase of the international struggle against Islamist terrorism. In Najaf, where a depressing second front of Iraqi insurgency seemed to be threatening terminal disorder, there has been an outbreak of conciliation. The rebellious Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, having noted the massing of American troops on Najaf’s borders, decided to engage in “extremely positive“ negotiations with the United States. Peace...
  • End of the beginning in Iraq

    12/15/2003 6:25:25 PM PST · by Holly_P · 10 replies · 152+ views
    Denver Post ^ | 12/15/03 | Editorial
    When Britain's doughty eighth army shattered the Nazi Afrika Korps at El Alamein in 1942, Winston Churchill said, "This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." Likewise, Saddam Hussein's capture in a squalid pit in Iraq doesn't mark the end of the American role in rebuilding that shattered nation. But it does finally end Saddam's tyranny while opening an opportunity to expand the international coalition that toppled the murderous despot from his throne. As British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Sunday, "Let this be more...
  • THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: At the gates of Baghdad

    04/02/2003 3:18:23 PM PST · by MadIvan · 10 replies · 115+ views
    The Daily Telegraph ^ | April 3, 2003
    The American advance to the gates of Baghdad is not the end. It may not even be the beginning of the end. But it is undoubtedly the end of the beginning. The fact that one can, after less than a fortnight, already echo Churchill's tentative assessment after El Alamein, more than three years into the Second World War, tells us something about the magnitude of the allied achievement. The term Blitzkrieg, or "lightning war", was invented by the Nazis to describe their campaigns of 1940, which astonished the world by their swiftness. Yet it took the Germans twice as long...