But he stressed the United States must combine its military might that has damaged al-Qaida during the past several years with other tools, such as diplomacy and development aid, as well as expand human intelligence to defeat an adaptable enemy.

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For the first time since the Gulf war, American troops are in a foreign land, not guarding an embassy, protecting aid workers or trying to keep a peace, but fighting an enemy.

ECONOMIST: Gains in Afghanistan, losses in the battle of ideas

Experience demonstrates ad nauseam that stable currencies enormously aid economic development and that currency instability is an insidious enemy of economic progress.

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