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...Haiti prepares for its on-again, off-again presidential vote, the chief guarantor of stability is the U.N. Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH). And even that guarantee is a limited one. The 9,600 person force is made up of combined civilian police and military personnel from several dozen countries and is led by the Brazilians who are proud of their humanitarian work--building and road repair, medical treatment and trash collection, all crucial tasks in a country where basic services have all but collapsed. (The U.S., which sent 20,000 troops into Haiti in 1994, is not part...
...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...
...past month or so, as the President finally started to give more candid speeches in front of general audiences, even taking unscripted questions! He acknowledged "setbacks" in Iraq and wrong prewar intelligence, predicted violence ahead, asked for persistence and cited tens of thousands of civilian Iraqi deaths...
...change the military is into the military. In 1948, Harry Truman ended more than 100 years of military culture by integrating the Armed Forces. No comparable change to military culture has ever been achieved from the inside, because the U.S. military was set up to be controlled by civilians. Only Congress can change “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” Only civilian leaders can decide who the military fights and when. Nobody polls recruits before major policy decisions are made. If you want to fight wars, join the military...
...pointed out that the President, despite his talk of limited success in the reconstruction of the cities of Najaf and Mosul, "didn't tell the American people how we're going to replicate that success in other parts of Iraq ... how many more teams of Americans, both military and civilian, need to go into these communities (and) what it will cost us." Most important was Reed's tone-quiet, humble, dispassionate, substantive...