If it is to fundamentally turn the tide against these guerrillas, the beleaguered Colombian army badly needs U.S. assistance.
They asked the Americans for help, and U.S. officers, sensing a chance to turn the tide against Al Qaeda, seized the opportunity.
The first is whether the force levels are enough to turn the tide against the Taliban and win Gen McChrystal's "short fight" by July 2011.
If the surge in troops is to work, if the government writ is to run across the country, if Nato is to ever have a chance of leaving Afghanistan with dignity, then the troops out on the ground must turn the tide against the insurgency in Helmand.
Participants also pointed out that we must address more upstream issues, including increasing education and economic opportunity for all Americans, to turn the tide permanently against HIV.
Scotland will become the first place in the UK to introduce minimum drink pricing and the coalition government has proposed a minimum price of 40p per unit of alcohol in England and Wales in an effort to "turn the tide" against binge drinking.
But if the military tide were to turn against the SPLA-N there would be fierce popular pressure on the southern government to help it wholeheartedly.
The good news is that, in Europe if not in the Muslim world, the popular tide has begun to turn against the Islamists.
But if the tide continues to turn against Mr Kuchma there are others who may speak out.
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Most of these 40 battalions are controlling their own battle space, and conducting their own operations against the terrorists with some coalition support and they're helping to turn the tide of this struggle in freedom's favor.
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