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...Baghdad, the son's method in no way resembles the father's. For President George W. Bush's team isn't so much preparing for war with Iraq as it is fighting a war with itself about whether and how to fight. The battle is oddly, alarmingly, public. The battlefield--not southern Iraq this time but the front pages of various newspapers--is strewn with bickering Bush aides and unnamed generals. Amid all the leaking and counterleaking, Bush's own comments about his aims keep shifting--which may explain why those of everyone around...
...Arab street is a key battlefield in the struggle between the U.S. and al-Qaeda, a recent UNDP study of the socio-economic outlook for the Arab world is cause for concern. Arab populations are growing, economies are shrinking, and the authoritarian religious and political culture leaves the citizenry prone to direct its rage towards the West rather than at the leaders who have failed them. That's why, despite the support from Arab regimes and their intelligence services for the U.S. campaign against Bin Laden's network, the Arab world remains fertile ground for recruiting al-Qaeda members...
...mobile howitzer. Though not yet deployed, it is an important component of U.S. tactics for the 21st century. How ironic that Rumsfeld, who has been so skillful at overseeing the use of military force, is against a weapon that would give our ground troops a decisive edge on the battlefield of the future. Our nation's military successes in Afghanistan are as much a result of planning as of Rumsfeld's administrative talents. It wouldn't hurt to hear what the generals have to say about the Crusader. JAMES M. WHITE SGT. FIRST CLASS, U.S.A. (RET.) Las Vegas...
Dostum's mercenary troops achieved notoriety for ruthless courage on the battlefield and wild indiscipline off it. Bearing a legacy of 200 years near the bottom of a Pashtun-dominated social order, they seemed to take a special delight in evening the historical score, killing Pashtun mujahedin of the south, and looting and terrorizing the civilians...
Team doctors rushed to find a way to keep him off the battlefield and on the football field. He had broken his ankle the previous spring. And, though the medical staff had given him the all-clear to play football, they insisted that he could not enter the military because of the treatments his injury required...