Keeping them indefinitely in limbo as wards of the United Nations would eventually have led to a new insurgent war.

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They are presently gearing up a massive war machine designed to defeat insurgent challengers in the next primary season.

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Bush also drew a picture of his war-planning options amid a wave of sectarian and insurgent violence, continued casualties of U.S. forces and an Iraqi government that the report said is struggling to reconcile the fractious nation's many cultural differences.

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Lawrence hit the Turks, in that stretch in the spring of 1917, nearly every day, because he knew that the more he accelerated the pace of combat the more the war became a battle of endurance and endurance battles favor the insurgent.

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