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Philippine political analyst Ramon Casiple. "It's easy to translate this capability for disaster handling into handling warfare. This is the new orientation of the task forces."
• From the military perspective, humanitarian missions like the ongoing Operation Damayan in the Philippines offer concrete benefits -- the chance to operate in far-flung places, build military-to-military alliances and get realistic training -- that they may later apply to their primary mission, which will always be fighting and winning wars.
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• WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama's health care law risks coming unglued because of his administration's bungles and his own inflated promises.
• To avoid that fate, Obama needs breakthroughs on three fronts: the cancellations mess, technology troubles and a crisis in confidence among his own supporters.
• Working in his favor are pent-up demands for the program's benefits and an unlikely collaborator in the insurance industry.
• But even after Obama gets the enrollment website working, count on new controversies. On the horizon is the law's potential impact on job-based insurance. Its mandate that larger employers offer coverage will take effect in 2015.
• For now, odds still favor the Affordable Care Act's survival. But after making it through the Supreme Court, a presidential election, numerous congressional repeal votes and a government shutdown, the law has yet to win broad acceptance.
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• WASHINGTON (AP) -- In his West Virginia district, the TV ads attacking Democratic Rep. Nick Rahall over the calamitous startup of President Barack Obama's health care law have already begun.
• The 19-term veteran, a perennial target in a GOP-shifting state, is among many in the president's party who have recited to constituents Obama's assurance that they could keep insurance coverage they liked under the 2010 overhaul.
• That has proved untrue for several million Americans, igniting a public uproar

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