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Whichever story line prevails, the intensity of today's anti-Americanism would fade as Iraq recedes from center stage. The domestic American reaction may persist somewhat longer, however. There is the possibility of an Iraq syndrome, akin to the reaction that followed the U.S. involvement in Vietnam a generation ago. That defeat led Americans and their representatives to be wary of new overseas undertakings...
...police crackdown was nowhere near akin to the 1969 police storming of University Hall or other events of police brutality across the nation. However, changes and compromises need to be made. Although students and police might never agree on noise, alcohol, and public decency laws, a middle ground can be found, so that a Lion King-like “Circle of Life” equilibrium can be reached. And in the vast Serengeti of the Charles River, the lions and water-buffalo can once again be at peace?...
...protect their nation. I suspect this number of committed recruits far exceeds the number of distant Reserve Officers’ Training Corps boycotters, crying for change but not actually caring enough to take a stake in the organization and advocate for that change. To the military, our boycott is akin to innocuous child’s play...
...leader has long maintained that the militias perform a valuable service, defending neighborhoods from attack by Sunni insurgents. In interviews with TIME, he has described the militias as akin to neighborhood watch committees. Bush may also find al-Hakim unwilling to listen to any complaints about the Mahdi Army of Moqtada al-Sadr. Although the two Shi'ite clerics are rivals, they have a mutual interest in keeping the U.S. at arm's length. Al-Hakim knows that if he goes along with any American plan to crack down on al-Sadr's militia, his own Badr Organization will likely...
...feel like I gave a lot,” he says. “But either way, 18 to 21, you give the best years of your life to the army.”For young Israelis, military service often takes on a formative personal role akin to the experience many American students hope to find at college, says Shira Kaplan ’08, who served in the IDF for two years.“I had a great time in the army,” Kaplan says. “We lived in barracks. We shared meals...