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...There is something backward here. Congressional opponents of the Iraq war are "supporting the troops" in the best possible way: by trying to bring them home to safety and their families. It is those - those few, apart from President Bush - who want to send even more troops to Iraq who should feel defensive about their support for the troops. Some of those troops are on their third tour of duty in Iraq, and few of them are pleased to be there. Maybe, as Bush and his advisers no doubt sincerely believe, the drip drip drip of young American blood...
Unlike Iraq, Afghanistan is a war fought backward, not a massive invasion on the front end but a minimalist effort that now demands a massive rescue operation. The situation in Afghanistan, a larger country with a bigger population than Iraq's, is so serious that the number of U.S. forces in the country has jumped more than 50% in the past year, to 27,000, a much bigger surge in percentage terms than is being argued over for Iraq. There are six times the number of soldiers as in 2002 when U.S. forces were staking out bin Laden in Tora...
...yelled a third. To show their impatience, they pushed me from one guard to another like a ball in a game. I became dizzy and breathless. A young male guard grabbed the lapels of my padded jacket, pulled me toward him and gave me a hard push. I staggered backward and hit the wall. He did this several times. All the while, the other guards continued to shout at me. My ears were ringing, my head was splitting and my body was trembling. I collapsed into a chair and closed my eyes. Suddenly a stinging blow landed on my cheek...
...your things. Don't leave anything behind.'' In the interrogation rooms, the interrogator said, ''I will read the conclusion arrived at by the People's Government on your case.'' He read a document that said I ''deserved punishment'' but added, ''In view of the fact that she is politically backward and ignorant, we decided to give her a chance to realize her mistakes. After 6 1/2 years of education in the No. 1 Detention House, we observed a certain degree of improvement in her way of thinking and an attitude of repentance. We have, therefore, decided to show her proletarian...
...Viet Nam days in America, but rather, ''We are here; we endure; we exist; we will not give up''). But the pounding went on, for the foreigner was suspect, an intruder, and the crowd was in a stoning mood. The driver threw his Mercedes into reverse and sped backward out of the crowd. Then came a hail of stones, crashing on the car's receding steel and glass. Backtracking on the puddled road, past piles of tires burning in a cold rain, the taxi met Israeli army jeeps highballing in the other direction, toward the shabab, the Palestinian youths with...