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...force must transcend traditional military culture as well. The State Department would have to be directly involved in the training, which would include some basic diplomatic skills-knowledge of Islamic culture and mores, familiarity with the Koran and language proficiency. The X-Peacekeepers would also have to train for basic policing-how to talk to people, become part of the community and solicit information. An excellent model exists in the 24-week residential training devised for the Police Corps, an ?lite national-service program that transforms college students into police officers. In fact, Police Corps and special-forces training...
...countries where they came from and talk to them about what they know. There are five, in Europe and Asia. Should Iran be referred to the U.N. Security Council? That is for member states to decide. it is being hotly debated. But the Security Council's basic function is to ensure compliance with the [Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty] and right now we are seeing compliance by Iran. So the question is: do we need to report to the Council? If [government representatives] decide against going to the Council, it should not be looked at as a reward. Are sanctions an option...
These are the men in the middle now. Warrant Officer Kamal Aziz, a 29-year veteran of the Saddam-era police corps, spent a few weeks retraining last May, learning American-style arrest techniques and the basic art of urban warfare. "It was almost the same training as we had before," he says, standing guard outside the Yarmuk police station in west Baghdad. But now that stations like his are top targets for insurgents fighting the U.S. occupation, he says, "the challenge is bigger." A few men at his station wear borrowed U.S. body armor, but many have...
...DOING ABOUT IT? I have called attention to the fact that we are not happy with how China is handling its currency, and we have been pressing them to go to a free-market exchange rate and to remove capital controls so that their currency will reflect the basic forces of demand and supply. That way we'll know that it's fair, that American workers and firms aren't being hurt by an artificially set currency. We're going to stay engaged on that...
Does China's success in manned space flight command our respect? As long as the communist government there continues to deprive the Chinese of their basic human rights, the answer is a resounding no. It is well known that there are numerous democracy advocates, religious workers and protesters against corruption incarcerated in Chinese jails and labor camps. Whether China's space program is being developed for peace or war is yet to be seen. But freedom-loving people of the world need to be vigilant against dark forces. Timothy Ho Anaheim, Calif...