That will only advance the war against terrorism, not set it back.
Social scientists like her, blessed with a sense of humor and as balanced a view of the world as is possible for someone promoting a cause, help advance the notion that in a war between the sexes the best you can hope for is a Pyrrhic victory.
And yet, because he was doing so to advance the cause of the anti-war movement, groups like the ACLU worked to discredit his prosecution.
But a government contemplating war should surely provide a credible advance estimate of the final bill, akin to what Mr Stiglitz and Ms Bilmes have done.
And I am confident, because of the leadership represented here as well as the leadership of our outstanding armed forces, that we can advance that goal today and responsibly bring this war to an end.
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The lightning American advance on Baghdad, beginning before the air-war proper, recovered an element of surprise that the large and ponderous deployment seemed to have forfeited.
For someone of the all-too-common opinion that a strong defense is the cause of war, a favorite trick is to advance a wholesale revision of strategy, so that he may accomplish his depredations while looking like a reformer.
Yet it is a great advance when the guilty have far more to fear from war than the innocent.
But Mr. Blair's fate will surely rise or fall on how well the war goes and not on who approves it in advance.
The result looks unlikely to advance a settlement of Sri Lanka's 17-year war against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, who want a separate state in the north-east for the Tamil minority.
But we are not given the miracle of advance hindsight, and so the president no longer proclaims victory in the war that he inherited from his father, just progress.
Many NATO war games assumed that there would be at least several days advance notice of any Soviet attack, and that there would be ample time to adequately position both front-line and reserve units.
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And once the war had started three years ago, would he have reveled in the swift advance to Baghdad, proclaiming victory, had he known that the invaders were leaving behind them the makings of a sanguinary insurrection?
The U.S. had no advance blueprint for much of the post-WWII order--few U.S. policymakers foresaw the Cold War--but, more often than not, we responded to crises and opportunities successfully--a vivid contrast to the responses of the 1920s and 1930s.
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