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...taught its youth to value radical action over respect for democracy. But American kids wouldn’t dream of pursuing serious political objectives through violence. After all, I thought, while the Montoneros were out blowing up buildings and laying the groundwork for Latin America’s bloodiest military dictatorship, the “radicals” in the U.S. were protesting the Vietnam War on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and embracing free love in Golden Gate State Park...
...weekly luncheon with Vice President Dick Cheney. During the gathering, Cheney sparred in a "vigorous debate" with several senators on why it's important to wait for Petraeus's first report on the strategy due in September. While most Republicans support the new strategy - which has resulted in the bloodiest few months since the end of "major hostilities" in 2003 - some in recent weeks have begun to defect, calling for a rethinking, or even redeployment, of U.S. troops in Iraq...
...unusually brutal spring in Iraq. With at least 220 dead, April and May combined for the bloodiest two-month stretch for U.S. forces since the war began. The spike in casualties is the result of the troop "surge," chiefly into hostile parts of Baghdad, a move opposed by a number of senior generals before it was announced last winter. Now President George W. Bush is under mounting pressure from members of his party to prove the effectiveness of the surge by summer's end or risk having his allies turn on the policy. The fear, G.O.P. officials privately admit...
...residents tell me, a relative calm has returned to Mansour. Fewer bodies are being found every day, and it is no longer routine to see gunmen shouldering rocket launchers in the street. One reason the violence has subsided, of course, is that many of the neighborhoods that saw the bloodiest sectarian cleansing are no longer mixed...
...reaction came with the Great Mutiny of 1857. Of the 139,000 sepoys in the Bengal Army-the largest modern army in Asia-all but 7,796 turned against their masters. Before long, the mutiny had snowballed into the largest and bloodiest anticolonial revolt facing any European empire in the entire course of the 19th century. There are many echoes linking the uprising to the Islamic resistance the U.S. faces today. Though the great majority of sepoys were Hindus, in Delhi a flag of jihad was raised in the principal mosque, and some of the insurgents described themselves as mujahedin...