He fought it, and the board backed down.
"Petraeus fought the war 'up,' but Odierno fought it 'down,' since he was responsible for implementing the new counterinsurgency strategy, which he did very, very well," said John A. Nagl, an Iraq veteran who now is president of the Center for a New American Security, a nonpartisan policy institute in Washington.
He sees the world as dominated by the menacing American empire and he wants to fight it and bring it down.
Cecile Kayirebwa was great for the liberating army as it fought its way down into Rwanda, but no music could make sense of what we saw there.
An excerpt: "The cause of the disease and its tribulation is the occupying American enemy, so all effort must be directed at this enemy; kill it, fight it, destroy it, break it down, plot against it, ambush it and, God the almighty willing, until it is gone".
Fight it by not backing down.
"I knew I was going to have to put my head down and fight it out," said Weitzeil, who deferred enrolling at California until this fall in order to train for the trials and Olympics.
If doubts there were, they evaporated as Moore and Workforce settled down to fight it out with their Japanese opponents.
"Coming off the turn, you can take more time to fight it," he said, "because you can fight it all the way down the straightaway".
In a Facebook post on Friday she said Towell, who was from Dundee, had been complaining of migraines in the run-up to the fight but put it down to stress.
