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...country should focus less on sending more men into battle and more on how those men will be cared for once they return home. Presented by Kennedy School of Government lecturer Linda J. Bilmes ’80 at the annual meeting of the Allied Social Sciences Association in Chicago, the study explored the economic and logistical strain imposed upon the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) by the volume of soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan seeking medical care, disability benefits, or both. According to Bilmes, the nation’s costs of fulfilling its obligations to these veterans could...
...violence. But it didn't work with al-Zarqawi and won't with Abu Deraa because it's not about one man or even one organization. It's about the disintegration of a society in the aftermath of an unprovoked invasion and occupation. It's about us. John Hubers Chicago...
...throwaway line: Bush said it from the very first days of the war, when he and Pentagon boss Donald Rumsfeld were criticized for going to war with too few troops. He said it right up until last summer, stressing at a news conference in Chicago that Iraq commander General George Casey "will make the decisions as to how many troops we have there." Seasoned military people suspected that the line was a dodge--that the civilians who ran the Pentagon were testing their personal theory that war can be fought on the cheap and the brass simply knew better than...
...violence. But it didn't work with al-Zarqawi and won't with Abu Deraa because it's not about one man or even one organization. It's about the disintegration of a society in the aftermath of an unprovoked invasion and occupation. It's about us. John Hubers Chicago...
...Gore is being pretty heroic, in standing so tall in the fight against catastrophic global warming. Trouble with that is, I was in three places this week where it is usually cold this time of year - Massachusetts, New York and Chicago - and in all three places people were remarking upon how nice and warm it was. Hard to hate, this global warming. Why can't it be global stinking, or global choking, that we're succumbing to? Then we (You) could feel like rallying behind a bold leader...