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...Taco Gilbert III, the commandant of cadets, as a "common thread" in reports of women victims who felt they were treated punitively or indifferently. For the academy superintendent, Lieut. General John R. Dallager, a combat pilot with 600-plus hours' flying over hot spots like Southeast Asia and Bosnia--and the father of three daughters in the military--the scandal has been devastating. "There is a power relationship," he notes. "There is a potential for abuse...
...book is a wake-up call to warn people that we're following a dangerous course by pushing identity politics and multi-culturalism," explains the Vanderbilt law school professor. "There's nothing special about the U.S. that says we couldn't have ethnic cleansing and violence here like in Bosnia or Rwanda...
During the Balkan conflicts in the mid- and late 1990s, agency paramilitary officers slipped into Bosnia and Kosovo to collect intelligence and hunt for accused war criminals like Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and his top general, Ratko Mladic. But the newly formed teams did not have enough manpower for snatches even when they were able to pinpoint Serbian targets. "The CIA," complains a former senior Clinton aide, "didn't have the capability to take down a three- or four-car motorcade with bodyguards...
...evil empire." George H.W. Bush was right to liberate Kuwait (and wrong not to push on to Baghdad when he had the world on his side). Even after the hawks and doves changed parties during the Clinton years, Democratic hawks were right about the use of force in Bosnia and Kosovo. And in 1998 bipartisan hawks--a group that included such disparate spirits as Paul Wolfowitz and John Kerry--were probably right that Saddam Hussein's unwillingness to cooperate with U.N. weapons inspections was intolerable, a casus belli...
...buying off its global obligations with a check. To head off similar humiliations, the Diet?Japan's parliament?passed a law in June 1992 allowing the SDF to participate in U.N. peacekeeping operations. Since then, Japan's soldiers have crept slowly yet more confidently onto the global stage from Bosnia to Rwanda, with world events providing ample justification for the country's legislators to broaden the SDF's ambit...