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...Members of the Bush Administration, of course, are not so crass as to admit that their aims in Iraq are imperialist. Yet U.S. soldiers are already finding themselves in situations miserably familiar to those of the old imperial powers. Take the deaths last week in Fallujah. Young soldiers firing on demonstrators among whom agents provocateurs with weapons may (or may not) have been hiding - we've seen this movie before, from India to Algeria to Ireland. Many of the Administration's statements on Iraq reveal a cast of mind last exercised by those with ostrich-feather plumes on their hats...
...Muhammad Bakir al Sadr. Sadr City could be described as the Compton of Iraq, but its 2 million residents make up 8 percent of Iraq's entire population. A substantial domain, then, for a young man who claims to be 30 years old, but whom many of his associates admit is more likely 23. But, as everyone from the U.S. military, the Shiite clerical authorities in Najaf and the leading Iran-based Shiite exile group have discovered in recent weeks, Muqtada's ambitions may be a lot broader than simply running Sadr City. And that's a chilling prospect...
...lone democratic outpost in a region of dictators and tyrannies. Although this closeness angers many in the Arab world—including those who sell us petroleum—we refuse to compromise the security of our ally. Whatever your feelings on the Palestinian question, you have to admit that if all we cared about was oil, we would’ve cut Israel loose a long time...
...Even from California, where he leads the United Lao Liberation Front (ULLF), Vang, 74, casts a long shadow over his people. Moua says he reports directly to Vang?a claim the Californian denies, though he does admit to providing occasional help. From his suburban American home, the exiled general demands democracy and a reinstatement of the monarchy in Laos. Moua and his militia are among the remnants of Hmong rebel groups fighting for that disappearing dream...
...spending an evening—or any number of them—in front of the television, doing nothing productive at all. Unfortunately, until the student body learns how to relax, mental health problems here will remain serious. And as long as Harvard retains its (entirely understandable) desire to admit only the brightest and most highly motivated applicants, it is hard to see how any substantial progress can be made to improve undergraduate mental health. Which is, in many ways, the most depressing thought...