As security deteriorated in the province this year, American diplomats and soldiers took to wearing flak jackets and helmets even while walking around their bases and slept in bunkers.
That assertion ignores the observation of many reporters and soldiers that security deteriorated in the first place because insufficient troop levels, the American decision to disband the Iraqi Army and other miscalculations created a vacuum in which the insurgency metastasized.
WASHINGTON, May 1 — The financial condition of Medicare and Social Security deteriorated in the last year, the Bush administration reported Monday, and it warned again that the programs were unsustainable in their current form.
Maria Lange, a director at International Alert, says that recently security has deteriorated in the region.
Elders and other local people say security has deteriorated in the area, whose control was turned over to the Afghan government by coalition forces last summer.
As security has deteriorated in Afghanistan, kidnappers have increasingly singled out affluent Afghans as well as foreign contractors, aid workers, church members and journalists.
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass). said Thursday that some in the State Department failed to "see the forest for the trees" as security conditions deteriorated in Benghazi.
As security has deteriorated in much of Pakistan, Ismailis had been spared the worst of the violence.
"The NRVA of 2007/08 showed that the food security had deteriorated in 25 out of the 34 provinces compared to the 2005 NRVA.
In a recent VOA report, NATO has also echoed that coalition forces have made significant progress, but confidential U.N. maps released suggest security has deteriorated in parts of the country in 2010.
The security situation deteriorated in South Darfur and North Darfur, with renewed clashes between armed groups and militias, and leading to new displacements of 30,000 to 40,000 people.
