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...Everyone who was on the court, I think we would have won our matches,” Bergman said. “All of our matches were close. It’s not like we were blown off the court...
...opportunity to call the attention of the Arab world more successfully to its claim that America itself is occupying the region - before, that was more rhetorical than factual. The number of U.S. troops in the Arab world was small. But now the U.S. is engaged in a full-blown military occupation of an Arab country, and al-Qaeda is going to try and use that in their propaganda, and direct attacks against American targets in the region to win Arabs over...
...from the look of the battlefields today, the bombing was largely surgical. In the open market in Mahmudiyah, five tanks were hit from the air while they were parked in alleyways so narrow that their gun turrets could not be turned. The storefront windows a few feet away were blown out, but otherwise the surrounding buildings are intact. In some cases, the Iraqis attempted to hide tanks and trucks from U.S. planes by parking them underneath freeway overpasses, and even though the vehicles were destroyed by laser-guided munitions that entered from the side, the bridges above were untouched...
...Republican Guard units that did not surrender. But the U.S. wielded its sword so deftly that relatively little carnage remained. The battlefields south of Baghdad are pocked with relatively few of the craters that would have been produced by the carpet bombing of masses of soldiers. Instead one finds blown-out tanks and other vehicles, usually standing alone...
...once pristine environment. In Hillary's day, teams of top climbers were handpicked by prestigious bodies such as the Royal Geographical Society. Today, an overweight globe-trotter with more money than experience and a little-known blind guy have equal access. The door to Everest's slopes has been blown wide open, and some critics speak of the death of great adventures...