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Chambliss signed up for the National Guard at age 17 when he was still at Bradford High. He recently re-enlisted for another six years despite narrowly escaping a roadside bomb attack in Iraq just two months before coming home. "I would do it over again if I had to. It's my job," he says. Still, he's more cynical about the mission. "In my first six months, I went from being scared to excited, to 'Hey, this is kind of fun' and feeling sorry for the Iraqis," he says. Then, as attacks on U.S. troops mounted despite American...
...allowing unannounced and more intrusive inspections of its nuclear sites. That's not enough for the Europeans, and particularly the Americans, who insist on Iran abandoning all enrichment activity and making do with low-grade reactor fuel imported from Europe. (The concern is that enrichment is a route to bomb material - low levels of enrichment make reactor fuel, but much higher levels can create bomb-grade material.) Iran rejects this offer, refusing to make its nuclear energy program dependent on the goodwill of outsiders. Tehran insists that the NPT grants it the right to an independent nuclear-fuel cycle...
...screaming collision between theory and practice at the nation's oldest military academy. Instantly there was massive security on the post. Gates closed, civilian traffic blocked, snipers on the rooftops, military police stationed every 50 yards or so, checking IDs. "All you had to do was bring one truck bomb into the tunnel under Washington Hall during lunch," says a cadet, "and you could really change the future of the Army." It was not just the shock of the images. "I remember walking to my class, past all these rooms," Pae recalls, "and every single instructor had CNN on." Cadets...
...little more than weapons, cash and a mission to start a Pashtun insurgency. In one fire fight, Amerine and eight of his soldiers, with the intermittent help of Afghan irregulars, stopped an advance of 1,000 Taliban soldiers. Just as they were descending triumphant on Kandahar, an errant U.S. bomb hit, killing two of his men and leaving Amerine with shrapnel in his leg, a busted eardrum and dark, hard memories of a war that had him putting his best sergeant in a body...
...nuclear test by the North? "This isn't affecting the price of apartments," he says. "North Korea won't attack us with nukes?we're the same race." Says Lee Do Hwan, another employee of Ilsan's Lotte department store: "I agree with North Korea's position on the Bomb. They can use it for their defense. It is the U.S. that's caused the crisis in the peninsula...