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...organization, al-Qaeda in Iraq; a Baghdad-area commander of an insurgent unit that provides logistical support for al-Qaeda bombers; and a Sunni imam who is sometimes brought in to counsel bombers during their premission spiritual "purification"--whom TIME consulted through Iraqis with contacts inside the insurgency. His account provides a rare glimpse into the mind-set and preparation of one aspiring suicide bomber...
Reagan trusted Stockman, but Stockman, by his own admission, again and again failed to return that trust. The mystery in this account is why Stockman did not lay his fears of impending financial disaster squarely on the President's desk. Or why, if others thwarted his honest intentions, he did not resign. His self-exoneration--describing how he was flitting here and there in righteous dismay, confronting all those mindless Californians around Reagan, struggling to "work from within" to avert the catastrophe he so clearly saw before him--does not go down well. He confesses to being too enamored...
...embassy in Reykjavik, to consider a reply. A brief session in the bubble with his advisers, followed by more discussions over a lunch of baked chicken, produced a revised set of talking points for the President to read at his afternoon session, ones that took into account Gorbachev's morning proposals and dwelt on the areas of potential agreement...
...recommending has nothing to do with maintaining that deterrent. If our deterrent force--our offensive missiles and bombers--was of the proper size before the Soviets deployed their defenses, it must now be expanded to ensure that the same number of weapons will land on Soviet targets, after taking account of the attrition the U.S. missile force will suffer as it passes through the Soviet defenses. So for the U.S. to deploy an ABM defense is the wrong response to the Soviet action. But since we are in this bind, why don't we do this: put a small amount...
...essential to understand the action-reaction dynamic and to take it into account in formulating arms-control and defense policies. We must understand that every action stimulates a reaction in an endless cycle. Already, the cost of our failure to do so has been the development of ridiculously large arsenals and missed opportunities to negotiate agreements to reduce them...