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...carefully to monitor their children's viewing habits. We recommend that young boys only be permitted to watch G.I. Joe. Who knows how much harm has already been done to the masculinity of our young people. We only hope that regular exposure to automatic weaponry, cruise missiles, and combat aircraft can begin to undo the damage...
Privately, some Navy officials acknowledge that the military rationale for 50 attack submarines is dubious. After all, the Navy now assigns two attack subs to each deployed aircraft carrier, something it usually didn't do even during the most tension-fraught days of the cold war. "It's a dirty little secret," a Navy commander daringly argued in Proceedings, an independent Navy journal. "U.S. nuclear-powered attack submarines no more support the carrier battle group commander than wet roads support traffic safety...
From a military standpoint, U.S. planes accomplished almost nothing in confronting Iraqi fighter aircraft Tuesday morning over the southern no-fly zone: Apparently none of the air-to-air missiles fired by the four U.S. planes -- two Air Force F-15s and two Navy F-14s -- struck their targets. But U.S. policy almost certainly took a PR hit. "Saddam Hussein is trying to show that the U.S. has run out of options," says TIME U.N. Correspondent William Dowell...
...things. One is that Starr's rejection by most Americans was itself an ironic triumph of conservatism. For the past 50 years the right has claimed that government can't perform most public purposes, whether those might be educating kids, caring for the poor or buying toilet seats for aircraft carriers at popular prices. This was an attack that started, of course, in the antigovernment rhetoric of the 1960s left. In the '90s Gingrich and his House revolutionaries consolidated that critique and focused it on Congress, assuring us that the place was a ship of fools. Two years ago, when...
Army Gen. Hugh Shelton, chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the Pentagon was sending an additional 36 combat aircraft to the Gulf. He said more ground troops also would...