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Christine O'Donnell, Tea Party candidate, confident she'll beat Chris Coons in Delaware Senate raceBy Nina Mandell Daily News Staff Writer Tuesday, November 2nd 2010, 1:03 PM Delaware Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell trails her opponent by double digits in the latest poll, but appears nothing but confident heading into Election Day. Hours before polls opened in Delaware, the Tea Party candidate said she was encouraged by a rally for her rival Chris Coons in downtown Wilmington headlined by Vice President Joe Biden that attracted what she deemed an unenthusiastic turnout. "VP Biden comes to DE, stumps for my opponent, and only...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 26, 2009 – The war in Afghanistan is challenging, but winnable, the commander of U.S. European Command -- who also serves as NATO’s top military commander -- wrote in a “From the Bridge” blog post on Eucom’s Web site yesterday. The situation in Afghanistan is “extremely serious,” Navy Adm. James G. Stavridis wrote, but he expressed confidence that “the coalition, working with the Afghan people, will ultimately win.” “The stakes are high, [and] the situation is extremely challenging,” Stavridis conceded. The admiral echoed NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen’s assessment that success will require an international team effort...

WASHINGTON, March 18, 2009 – The operation in Afghanistan “is absolutely winnable and will be won,” the top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan said yesterday on PBS’s “Jim Lehrer Newshour.” But winning, Army Gen. David D. McKiernan stressed, will take more than military might. “It’s going to take security, it’s going to take governance, and it’s going to take socio-economic progress – all three of those in a comprehensive way,” he said. As commander of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan, McKiernan said, he’s not seeing a greater al-Qaida presence in Afghanistan. “But we do know that al-Qaida...

Rear Adml. Mark Fox, Communications Director, MNF-I BAGHDAD -- While the situation in Iraq is challenging, it is “winnable,” U.S. Navy Rear Adml. Mark Fox told a group of online journalists and bloggers Friday by telephone.Fox, who has flown combat and contingency missions over Iraq in Operations Desert Storm, Southern Watch and Iraqi Freedom, is now communications director for Multi-National Force, Iraq. ”Sectarian violence is now the gravest threat to our strategic objectives in Iraq, and to be honest, Iraq is a more complex strategic problem entering 2007 than it was this time last year,” he said. However, he...

A noble, necessary and winnable war -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: November 28, 2006 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Samuel Blumenfeld -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The recent assassination of Pierre Gemayel, a leading pro-Western Christian politician in Lebanon, has all the earmarks of a Hezbollah-Iranian operation carried out with or without Syrian help. Iran is now pouring millions of dollars into Lebanon to rebuild Hezbollah's military strength and is also financing Hamas in Gaza. Iran considers the pro-Western Christians of Lebanon as much an enemy as Israel, and she may very well ignite another civil war to finally bring the Christians under Muslim domination. In other words,...

<p>WASHINGTON - Republicans next week will accelerate a drive to register 350,000 new GOP voters in California, in a campaign meant to both symbolize and boost their Golden State aspirations.</p> <p>"California is definitely in play," Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie insisted Thursday. "We have a real chance to win it in November, and we are going to put our money where our mouth is in that regard."</p>