The regime gradually lost control of the area in 2012, and civilians created local councils that provided municipal services.
In recent weeks, violence in the western Darfur region of Sudan has escalated as the Sudanese Army and its janjaweed militia allies have attacked rebel groups and civilians, creating a new wave of refugees.
The Vietnam War was a war of illusion; the enemy did not fight in traditional ways (except for the North Vietnamese Regular Army in I Corps), they waged guerilla warfare and utilized innocent civilians creating an illusion to the United States troops and forcing them to ask the questions, "Who is to be trusted?
The suicide scourge that has taken more than 600 Israeli lives, most of them civilian, creates cogent justification, or at least mitigation, in the minds of most Israelis, for many of the excesses committed in the name of security.
Mrs. Clinton has proposed several important tactical objectives: 1) a "no fly zone" that would prevent Assad from killing civilians; 2) create safe havens in northern and southern Syria for civilians; 3) "increase" support for the democratic forces opposing Assad; and 4) compelling Russia to cease its air support for Assad's ground forces.
On its own, it is more likely to kill civilians and create new enemies than to decapitate and disable al-Qaeda.
"This is a campaign launched by terrorists against innocent civilians to create chaos, but the security forces are totally in control of the situation".
Through the years, the two men were allies in their respective wars and used similar strategies -- kidnapping children, turning them into soldiers through forced use of drugs, deliberately attacking civilians to create terror.
It opposes an American-led war against Iraq on the grounds that it will cause regional instability, kill innocent civilians and create a refugee crisis on its 730-mile border with Iraq.
Combat within cities minimizes American military advantages and offers the greatest possibility for the United States to make mistakes -- to harm civilians and create the kind of collateral damage that can cause consternation in the Arab world and here at home.
