Frederick Barton, a post-conflict reconstruction expert with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, says there was never a clear U.S. strategy for reconstructing Iraq.
Absent a clear U.S. understanding of how these and similar conundrums can be fully resolved, making further "progress" toward a CW ban would be dangerous and irresponsible.
The vessel had to clear U.S. regulatory requirements before continuing on from Dutch Harbor, led by the 420-foot Healy, which plowed ahead through about 300 miles of ice.
Thus, the conclusion is clear: U.S. stocks are projected to be THE place to be this year.
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But he made it clear the U.S. military planned to use its full might in the war.
Nor is it clear how U.S. action would be perceived elsewhere.
It seems clear the U.S. spends a smaller share than socialist states like Sweden, but somewhat more than eminently respectable capitalist countries like Switzerland and West Germany.
U.S. sanctions have cut Iran off from the U.S. financial system and largely prevented it from conducting bank transactions in dollars, which for the most part must clear through U.S. banks.
Even once the answers to these questions are in hand, it is far from clear whether U.S. assistance in the name of conversion of the Soviet military industrial complex is a good idea.
And I think that what we have made clear is that there are no boots -- I mean, rather that U.S. troops will not go into Libya, that the President made that clear when he announced U.S. military action and he made it clear again the other night.
It isn't clear why the U.S. has never developed a European-style youth hostel culture.
With the region enflamed, however, it's not clear what direction U.S. policy may take in the months ahead.
But at Tuesday's launch of our second annual report, it became clear that the U.K. government response had changed.
For example, it is not clear whether the U.S. military would want a permanent basing arrangement or more flexible intermittent access.
It also isn't clear that the U.S. will be able to hold back and let the international coalition take charge if the effort falters.
From all of this, it is clear that the U-6 measure is a lot more reliable than the U-3, the one that is most widely reported.
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It is far from clear that what U.S. intelligence needs at this juncture is more of the sort of group-think with which diplomats are all-too-often associated .
Events like the Fukushima nuclear incident and the Indonesia tsunami made clear that the U.S. remains uniquely capable of delivering non-traditional security like humanitarian assistance and disaster relief as well.
What is clear is that U.S. officials appear to have done little to stop Madoff, even though a lot of other people in the financial markets were raising questions about him.
"I made it clear that the U.N. would be unable to proceed if the law establishing the court, as passed by Cambodia's parliament, differs from the Memorandum of Understanding, " said Corell.
Till now it's been made clear by the U.S., particularly after the arrest of Carruthers, that executives from a company that accepts sport bets from Americans would be in danger of arrest.
As Congress battles over fiscal solutions and tax reform to the ailing economy, one thing is clear: the U.S. government charges a higher tax burden on its corporations than governments in the big emerging markets.
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In fact, it was clear that the U.S. environment played some role in the trend, since foreign-born children who had lived in America for more than 10 years were three times as likely to develop allergic diseases as those who spent less than two years Stateside.
U. but whose leaders made clear in their introduction they believe the U.K. should remain a member.
But then, it is not clear Russia has any U.S. spies in custody, either.
What is clear is that the U.S. military doesn't plan to leave Kyrgyzstan any time soon.
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President Barack Obama has made clear that he believes U.S. and international sanctions can curb Iran's nuclear program if they are given more time to work.
It would also supplant CME Group Inc. as the world's largest futures exchange by contract volume and create a clear leader in the U.S. options market.
The message from clean energy investors like Deutsche Bank and the model provided by our global competitors are both quite clear: what the U.S. needs is not cap and trade but a comprehensive clean economy strategy.
In the late Cold War period, and during the nineteen-nineties, the Army embraced what became known as the Powell Doctrine, which emphasized the decisive use of overwhelming force in conventional wars, as well as the enunciation of clear exit strategies for U.S. troops.
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