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...blame the brutalities on Saddam. Last week the resistance was holding 16 of them, ages 18 to 47, at a small house in a Kuwait City suburb. An antiaircraft gun stood in the garden, and the garage was stacked with grenades and ammunition boxes, one of which bore the logo of the Jordanian armed forces...
...deaths and injuries among the Iraqis, though an accurate total may never be known. The conflict challenged a whole series of military shibboleths: generals always refight the last war (Saddam in fact planned a rerun of the 1980-88 war with Iran, but allied strategy and tactics bore no resemblance to Vietnam or Korea); air power alone cannot win a war (maybe not, but it destroyed up to 75% of the fighting capacity of Iraq's front-line troops in Kuwait, making the remainder a pushover); an attacking army needs at least a 3-to-1 superiority in numbers over...
From the moment we walked out of Faaa ("Fa-a-a") Airport, we began to realize that modern-day Tahiti bore absolutely no resemblance to the Tahiti of popular fantasy...
...going to bore you with my sordid history of no-night stands and zipless handshakes. Suffice to say I'm a bit jaded when it comes to Harvard relationships (generally defined as "vicious power struggles between insecure, manipulative egotists"). Suffice to say that Valentine's Day is not my favorite holiday...
...movement. And it's also a complete about-face from the Vietnam era. Back then, anti-war activists saw American soldiers as baby-killing monsters, armed with napalm and eager to ravage the Vietnamese people My Lai-style. In the eyes of the anti-war movement, the soldiers bore as much guilt for the prosecution of an immoral imperialist war as the president, the Pentagon and the rest of the Establishment. Returning soldiers were shamed and spit upon...