The arrival of the marines unambiguously confirmed the shift in the American strategy from using air power and proxy Afghan armies to oust the Taliban from power to relying on powerful American forces which can, as Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld put it, "crawl around on the ground and find people".
Such are the experiences of some of the soldiers who have lived through the American policy permutations of an Afghan war now entering its ninth year, from the deployment of the 2,000-strong 2,000-strongelped oust the Taliban forcepower in 2001 thatresident Obama's decision to escalate a stagnating conflict to 100,000 American troops in 2010.
But even the Socialists are reluctant to oust the president, fearing the power vacuum that might then ensue.
Ethiopia forces invade to oust the Islamists from power.
Such deep inroads into the Conservative vote, if sustained at a general election in two years' time, could oust the Conservatives from power and usher the Labour Party back to 10 Downing Street.
With the prime minister, Najib Razak, expected at any moment to declare a general election, the opposition coalition must find a way to raid those deposits if they are to oust the BN from power.
Labour will only win when its members decide it's worth compromising to oust the Tories from power, as they finally did after their fourth miserable defeat in 1992.
The Iranian payments are not large, at least compared with the hundreds of billions of dollars the United States has spent to oust the Taliban from power, support Mr. Karzai's government and fight a tenacious insurgency intent on toppling Mr. Karzai.
News on Tuesday that American diplomats would sit down with Taliban leaders – the first direct talks since the US helped oust the group from power in 2001 – prompted speculation that real progress towards a negotiated end to the war in Afghanistan might be in sight.
US forces were sent to Afghanistan to oust the Taliban from power after they had given sanctuary to al-Qaeda.
