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...made the 24-hour trip to Egypt four times in two years to work on my master’s project in journalism. My last trip, in April 2008, finally brought me to the story I had been chasing: the biggest civil uprising against Egypt’s military government in three decades. Taking photos in the strike’s epicenter, the industrial city of Mahalla, I was kidnapped by the police on Apr. 10. My translator, trying to help me get away, was nabbed as well...
...copious mentions of Harvard’s centuries-old commitment to military service—from George Washington’s Continental Army to the “Harvard Regiment” of the Civil War—often made the University’s commitment to the military seem more historical than contemporary...
...believe we are fighting al-Qaeda in Iraq. They "stand up" al-Qaeda as the enemy in Iraq, he said, even behind closed doors. In the teeth of the facts, they ignore that the enemy we're fighting in Iraq is a half a dozen homegrown insurgencies, an incipient civil war, and criminal gangs. They ignore the fact that although a handful of Osama bin Laden's followers showed up in Iraq after the invasion, in a futile attempt to hijack the Sunni resistance, al-Qaeda is not the main enemy in that country...
...makings of an army. The Sunni Arabs who drifted into Iraq after the invasion and the Iraqis who embraced al-Qaeda were never an organization. They were never an army. They were never the main enemy. They numbered, what, a couple of thousand? They nearly triggered a civil war, but even that they failed to accomplish...
...under Baghdad's control. Many Iraqis feel safe enough to move back into their houses. And none of it should take away from General Petraeus; our troops, who are bleeding and dying to hold together a country vital to American interests; or the Iraqis, who have backed away from civil war. So why should we now mischaracterize the enemy...