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...problems, we're still married, with no plans to divorce--or even to cut back much on our summer driving trips, according to the AAA. Why won't we end it? Because we just don't give a flip about melting the ice caps, going broke and having to airlift Bradley fighting vehicles into Iraq for two or three more decades? No, I think those things pain us. It's something else. The reason our marriage to our cars continues is that infidelity isn't an option...
...willing" won't be possible. The numbers are a drop in the bucket compared to the 150,000 troops already deployed by the Americans, and don't pack the wallop of the 10,500 British troops. NATO is organizing the headquarters and communications. The Americans will provide airlift, sealift, training and equipment to many of the troops, and cold cash to make the whole thing work. And the folks back home in many contributing countries are actively hostile. So what's the point...
...past decade have cost Nigeria $12 billion, and they want assurances that this time the international community will pick up the tab - a call echoed in a U.S.-sponsored resolution currently before the UN Security Council. Besides financial aid, the West African force will also need logistical aid to airlift its troops...
...House and due to be signed by Bush this week. He has also announced a new effort to help Americans volunteer overseas. "We are the nation that liberated continents and concentration camps," he said in a speech last week. "We are the nation of the Marshall Plan, the Berlin Airlift and the Peace Corps." The compassion strategy was also at work when Bush castigated the Europeans for opposing bioengineered food and subsidizing agricultural exports--because, he said, these policies are perpetuating starvation in Africa...
...states. The Germans have agreed to take the lead in putting together a consortium of European countries to lease large transport planes before Europe's own Airbus A400M can be deployed around 2009. At present, according to NATO figures, the U.S. has a fleet of 340 planes for strategic airlift; European allies own 11, and rental agreements on a further 25 are due to expire at the end of the year. Fixing the problem fell to Berlin, say NATO officials, in part because its capability needs to be bolstered: the Bundeswehr had to rent Ukrainian Antonovs to get cargo...