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...walked up the ramp with my colleague Ignazio Ingrao of the Italian weekly magazine Panorama, who'd also been at the Auschwitz visit. This was his first time to New York, a place that he, like so many from different places, feel like they have gotten to know from afar, the Rome of our age. And yes, he'd watched this city on his television that September day, from a safe distance in modern-day Rome, just like this New York-born reporter - and yes, also like the German-born future Pope. Two-thirds...
...Colonel H.R. McMaster, of the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment in Tal Afar, realized that successful stabilization is based largely on the ability of U.S. troops to build affiliation with the Iraqi people. He implemented a new training program in Colorado, where soldiers conducted house-search scenarios and only obtained desired information after sitting down with occupants, drinking tea together, and asking culturally respectful questions. McMaster credits his strong and productive relations with local leaders in Iraq to this appreciative mentality, which he urged his brigade to adopt...
...McMaster’s regiment stayed in Tal Afar for nine months, long enough to build affiliations with the local people. This strategy proved much more successful than basing troops for short stints in cities where neither they nor the local people were familiar with each other. When McMaster’s regiment was designated to leave Tal Afar, the Mayor of Tal Afar wrote a letter requesting that the regiment stay another year. The mayor spoke highly of McMaster and his squadron commander, Lt. Colonel Chris Hickey, whom the mayor said knew the names of his children. These...
...crisis unfolds will be determined not just in Beijing but also by the words and actions of a man who protects his people from afar, in his exile home in the northern-India hill station of Dharamsala. As a Buddhist monk, the Dalai Lama speaks unstintingly on behalf of all people's rights to basic freedoms of speech and thought-though as a Buddhist monk, he also holds staunchly to the view that violence can never solve a problem deep down. If the bloodshed gets out of control, he said in recent days, he will step down as political leader...
Jawad said he hopes to return to Iraq when the violence subsides. Meanwhile, he wrestles with his country’s fate from afar...