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...Battleground Untamed the crux of the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq is summed up in a quote in Tim McGirk's article "War in the Shadows" [Oct. 10]. He wrote that after an ambush outside Kandahar, an American officer directed his men not to shoot wildly at the shadows flitting through the chaos because "Dammit! It's civilians mixed with enemy." The U.S. is trying to fight a gentleman's war. There will be civilian casualties in any war. We have to quit trying to pick and choose when we raise our weapons. Either get out now or fight. Denise...
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...church’s other promotional material trumpeted: “Do you know who you can trust?” (Yes.) “When life becomes a battleground, your mind is your best weapon.” (Depends on the battleground.) “What blocks you from using your mind’s full potential?” (Alcohol and the Core system...
Education is a tricky battleground. "There's an emotion to it that makes it different from day laborers hanging out in front of the Home Depot," says Krikorian. In North Carolina an in-state-tuition bill died in committee in May after talk radio helped stir a furor "one hundred times bigger than Terri Schiavo," in the words of Kevin Miller, a host at WPTF in Raleigh. Many listeners were worried that expanded in-state rates would not only suck up taxpayer dollars but would also make it harder for their kids to get into top state schools like...
...members of the West German Socialists and the British Labor Party, there is a fashionable attitude of blaming the U.S. for trying to stop terrorists rather than the terrorists for starting the bloodshed. A broader group of Europeans fear that since their continent, not the U.S., is the terrorists' battleground, they are most likely to suffer reprisals...