He told us the unpleasant truth about the problematic nature of the Western way of war at the outset of the 21st century.
As with George Casey's replacement by David Petraeus in Iraq in 2007, the Afghan shake-up represents both a change of personnel and a broader rethink of the American way of war.
It reflects Rick's refusal to let the ambiguity of his choices get in the way of his waging war to the best of his ability.
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Last week Lebanese commentator Tony Badran published an article on the Now Lebanon Web site discussing the Iranian way of war.
But if the new way of American war has any common denominator, the qualities of flexibility and imagination rank high among them.
We remember the poison gas, the moonscape of shattered trees and churned-up earth, the incompetent leadership that could imagine no way of conducting the war other than repeated frontal attacks.
It was proper to speak of parents the old-fashioned way in the days of World War II and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
However, the creation of a host of new Osama bin Ladens is some way down the list of war-related worries for the region's rulers.
But the thoroughness of this book is that it traces the origins of the war all the way back to the French invasion of 1830.
One can only hope that at some point, the great mass of people throughout the Arab world will reject the failed and costly ideology of war against Israel, the way the people of Eastern Europe have rejected their own failed and costly ideology.
Ironically, the only point of consensus is that there is just one way to attack the problems of war and peace, expanded civil rights, job creation and development, terror, health care, education and the environment.
Bleszinski worked at Epic Games for 20 years, going all the way back to Jazz Jackrabbit and all the way up to Gears of War: Judgement.
Even before September 11, 2001, President Bush said that the security threats of the future would differ from those of the Cold War era, that they required a different way of thinking and of organizing our defenses.
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Senator JAMES WEBB (Democrat, Virginia): The majority of the nation no longer supports this war - the way this war is being fought, nor does the majority of our military, nor does the majority of Congress.
The core purpose of the Geneva Convention is to encourage the conduct of war in a way that minimizes violence to civilians.
The decision by the arbitration court in Vienna now paves the way for one of the largest post-war restitution settlements in Austria.
There is an enormous amount of frustration over the war on a number of grounds, from the cost, to the way the war has been fought, to what the outcome is.
Rather than recognize that they are both subordinate to and supportive of Damascus and Teheran's terror war strategy against Israel, Olmert and his associates are using the foreign elements of the war as a way to say that the Palestinians are not responsible even though they are the ones carrying out the operations on the ground.
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In 1992 he starred opposite Sharon Stone as the corruptible cop in Basic Instinct, and the following year he put in a great performance as the paranoid defence worker losing his way at the end of the Cold War in Falling Down.
Liberals wanted to shut them down as relics of the Cold War standing in the way of better relations with the Soviet Union.
And some of them have already suggested that much of the cynicism about politicians had been the result of the way in which he took Britain into the war on Iraq.
In short, neither side has shown the slightest interest in helping Mr Diallo look for the missing 14 people, let alone agreeing to a ceasefire or trying to work out a way of ending the war.
The origin of the road's regal name is said to stem back to a league of kings who advanced this way to wage war with the wicked Cities of the Plains -- the Old Testament cities of Sodom and Gomorrah -- which are thought to have lain along the Dead Sea.
Most stockmarkets have fallen in each of the past three years, and many investors are hoping that getting the war out of the way will stop the rot.
The Communist Party folded at the end of the Cold War but Bersani continued his way up the ranks in the leftist parties that followed, becoming the president of the Emilia-Romagna regional council in 1993.
If he has indeed convinced them that a more honest society that respects the rule of law is the only way to ensure the survival of the Islamic republic, he will have won a war, not just a battle.
The tunnels were still in secret use long after the Battle of Britain had given way to the Cold War.
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