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...Does the film show that Japanese soldiers are worthy of respect and honor? During the last assault, Kuribayashi said to his soldiers: "One day, our ancestors will console our souls and sing odes to your bravery and shed many tears." There are such lines in the film. But war should not be worshiped or justified. We should always accept the reality of our military past and think calmly about what we can do in the future...
...among Arabs, many nonetheless viewed him through a nationalist prism. From Morocco to the Gulf, there was widespread admiration for Saddam's willingness to stand against the U.S. and Israel. On the Arab street, the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 was therefore viewed as an imperialist Western assault on Arabs and Muslims rather than the war of liberation from an odious oppressor, as the Bush Administration had depicted...
...over her straight red hair and led me to the chow hall. As we sat down to eat, she gave me an overview of the situation in Ramadi, where insurgents have control of whole swaths of the downtown area. Retaking the city, McClung explained, would not involve an assault of the kind the Marines staged against Fallujah in 2004. "We don't want to Fallujah Ramadi," said McClung, making me laugh. "We don't want to destroy the city to save it." McClung went on: Beefed-up local police forces would wrest the city from insurgents block by block instead...
...Airborne Division is preparing to go from Fort Bragg to Kuwait, where they will be the reserves ready to head into Iraq. The All-Americans, as the brigade is known, are paratroopers by training and have historically had clearly defined mission - as their homepage puts it, "execute a parachute assault, conduct combat operations, and WIN." But unless this moment of rumination results in actual strategic change on the ground, it is unlikely that the brigade will be doing what it was trained for in Iraq. The paratroopers will be instead tasked to the dirty and dangerous business of running convoys...
...racial consciousness in the '60s (his anthemic ?Say It Loud, I?m Black and I?m Proud?). Others will itemize Brown?s rap sheet and jail time - for larceny as a teenager, then the two police chases (unlike O.J.?s, J.B.?s were naturally high-speed) and the assault complaints lodged by various wives and other women - and ponder the connection, in the life of an performer or pro athlete, between adrenaline-fueled excellence in his career and the need to express his anger with his fists. But I?ll leave those speculations to the psychologists...