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...article published in the current edition of Military Review, Brig. Ailwin-Foster rips into the American military, charging it with arrogance, self-righteousness and cultural insensitivity bordering on "institutional racism." These traits, he suggests, prevented the Americans from building productive relationships with Iraqis - they may even have helped fuel the insurgency that wracks the country today...
...Having helped train Iraqi troops, Brig. Ailwin-Foster has had plenty of interaction with the American military. And, having myself watched the U.S. military from close quarters in Iraq for nearly three years, I find it hard to disagree with him. American cultural insensitivity was on display even in the minutes before Saddam Hussein's statue was famously toppled in Baghdad - remember the soldier who covered the statue's head with the Stars and Stripes? The Iraqis gathered in the square to celebrate the dictator's downfall took offense to that gesture...
...weeks ago, in a case involving Jose Padilla, a U.S. citizen accused of plotting with al-Qaeda to detonate a dirty bomb in an American city, U.S. Appeals Court Judge Michael Luttig refused to go along with the government's plan to transfer Padilla from a military brig to civilian custody. Originally, the Bush Administration named Padilla an enemy combatant, prompting his lawyers to challenge that designation. Just as the Supreme Court prepared to review the case, a federal grand jury indicted Padilla in a Miami court on charges of conspiring to carry out attacks abroad. (In the new indictment...
...charges to fight. But when Jose Padilla learned last week that he had been indicted, "he was extremely happy," his attorney Andrew Patel told TIME. Padilla, a U.S. citizen who has been held as an "enemy combatant" by the military since mid-2002, will be transferred from a Navy brig to a federal prison and, more important, will get a trial date...
Princeton led 14-0 before Joe Sandberg’s 25-year run brought the Quakers to within 14-6 with 10:10 left in the first half. However, the extra-point attempt was blocked by Brig Walker and returned by Jay McCareins for a two-point defensive conversion...