Word: awol
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Anderson thinks of himself and others like him as war resisters. His critics, who have no sympathy for volunteer soldiers suddenly opposed to combat, prefer terms like coward and traitor. But now that Anderson has been AWOL for more than 30 days, he is known in the U.S. military as a deserter, facing the possibility of years in jail. (No deserter during wartime has received the stiffest punishment, execution, since the last days of World...
...join the military have a greater sense of duty in wartime. But it is also true that the military has become more efficient at preventing desertions: since 2001, unit commanders, instead of one central authority, have had responsibility for identifying potential deserters and reintegrating those who have gone AWOL. Even as the number of desertions has fallen, the number of prosecutions, while still tiny, has edged up, from 153 in fiscal year 2002 to 171 and 176 in the past two years. Whereas offenders once had a good chance of getting a slap on the wrist and a dishonorable discharge...
...issue, under the new North Korea Human Rights Act of 2004. And the European Union may want to cooperate with Washington on this one, given that Pyongyang is the world's worst violator. The self-described human-rights champions who run South Korea these days will be shamefully AWOL in this fight, but that won't matter. South Korea's constitution offers citizenship to anyone who comes in from the North. If the U.S. can help arrange a transit route for refugees through China, the exodus will begin. When that happens, look for a better class of dictator in Pyongyang...
...used to personally ground-check the truth of his underlings' reports grew less engaged. A top aide reported it would "sometimes take three days to get in touch with Saddam," even in periods of crisis. At one point during the 2002 face-off with U.N. inspections, Saddam was AWOL, so a senior official took it on himself to authorize inspection overflights...
...answered questions about whether he performed his duties during five years in the Air National Guard, looked as if he would escape any damage just because CBS had screwed up its fact checking? On the very day of the CBS broadcast, a group called Texans for Truth unveiled its AWOL ad claiming that Bush never even showed up for the Alabama unit he transferred to in 1972; the Democratic National Committee released the video Operation: Fortunate Son, which details the ways in which Bush allegedly received preferential treatment. Now it looked as if Bush had been vaccinated, even if other...