Monday's two-hour premiere of the NBC series "Stars Earn Stripes," in which entertainers and athletes work with experts to complete militarylike missions, drenches a promising premise in a distracting amount of troop-thanking.
No amount of troops, tanks and bombs can change the fundamentals of the marketplace.
"It is my professional opinion that no amount of troops, in no amount of time, can ever achieve all the objectives we seek in Afghanistan," he said.
Let the military realize where the situation is slightly improving, we could thin out troops from there, but a certain amount of troops will be there.
The British government should not be talking about sending any amount of troops to Mali (British troops to join French in Mali mission, 29 January).
"This is a welcome home of a massive amount of troops that are coming home that served us with honor and those that paid the ultimate sacrifice".
As American commanders and diplomats have said repeatedly here, no amount of troops can substitute for a lack of political consensus among ordinary Afghans.
The failure of the Iraqis to make progress toward political unity imperils Iraq, said the nominee, Adm. Michael G. Mullen, who said that unless things changed, "no amount of troops in no amount of time will make much of a difference".
Britain is prepared to take the risk of sending a "sizeable amount" of troops to Mali and neighbouring West African countries as David Cameron offers strong support to France in its operation to drive Islamist militants from its former colony.
As Adm. Michael Mullen, the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs, said honorably and bluntly in his Congressional confirmation hearings, "No amount of troops in no amount of time will make much of a difference" in Iraq if there's no functioning Iraqi government.
What the president didn't acknowledge is that, in effect, he will be maintaining the current level of troops in Iraq until the end of his presidency, and that he will not send a significant amount of troops to Afghanistan - the true central front in the war on terror.
