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...President but he reserves the right to stay in uniform should he not be elected, an old threat of martial law exhumed by Friday's ruling. Musharraf has already reshuffled the top ranking generals to better ensure a loyal army corps ready to do his bidding even as a civilian President...
Those of us who have served indeed took "umbrage" at one of our own being called duplicitous and unfit to wear the uniform. None of us are perfect, but by God, we did our best to serve our civilian masters without genuflecting. Shame on Kinsley for missing the point behind the outrage and doubting its authenticity. Kenneth M. Currie, Lieut. Colonel, USAF (Ret.) Indian Harbour Beach...
...Those of us who served in uniform indeed took righteous "umbrage" at one of our own being called duplicitous and basically unfit to wear the uniform. None of us are perfect, but by God, we did our best to serve our civilian masters without genuflecting. Shame on Kinsley for missing the point behind the outrage and doubting its authenticity. Kenneth M. Currie, Lieut. Colonel, USAF (Ret.) Indian Harbour Beach, Florida...
...nuclear issue in Iran is less clear-cut. North Korea had withdrawn from the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and tested a nuclear weapon; Iran remains under the NPT and is nowhere close to building nuclear weapons. Western governments fear that mastering civilian nuclear technologies such as uranium enrichment, allowed under the NPT, would put bomb-making capability within reach of the Iranian regime, and should be prevented. Iran counters that enrichment is its right under the NPT. For the U.N., the concern has been over Iran's transparency rather than the principle of enrichment. The lines of compromise...
...Senate” resolution, which cannot officially influence the president’s foreign policy. The move is generally recognized as symbolic posturing designed to aggravate relations. It also reduces the meaning of the word “terrorism” from actions characterized by their deliberate use of civilian death and terror to further a goal, to a nasty word used to describe those we don’t like...