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...Culture Cops,” and their Italian-designed, vase-emblazoned uniforms are the hottest thing to hit the Mesopotamian marshes since the July United Service Organizations tour of California’s recently-inaugurated governor. Officially known as the Archaeological Site Protection Force, this band of former civilian guards represents America’s latest attempt to quell the broad criticism of its failure to protect Iraq’s cultural treasures from being stolen last year. Unfortunately, it is too little too late...
...lack of military lawyers could increase the likelihood of war violations by soldiers and unacceptable civilian collateral damage during military operations,” the veterans’ groups argued...
Most of the men and women serving in Iraq right now are not the fighting machines we typically imagine them to be. According to the commander of the Air Force camp at Baghdad International Airport, the ratio of support staff to combat troops is 10 to 1. The Civilian Engineers Corps makes sure the generators are working and that the tents are sturdy. The dishwashers wash dishes. There is a laundry staff. There is even an entire unit whose sole purpose is to make sure all the Hummers have gas. Most of these people signed up thinking that they would...
...with those kinds of numbers comes a far greater risk of disaster. It’s up to “concerned elected officials,” says Hayden, to “decide who is in charge of defining the first amendment, the police and FBI or civilian authority.” For their part, protestors must recognize the politically self-defeating consequences of appearing militant—to oppose, in Hayden’s words, “not the police but the partisan use of the police” which may emerge. Demonstrators and authorities alike...
Violence which is in the context of war is paralegal. Or to dumb it down for Buttigieg, if you happen kill people while fighting in Grenada, it is not quite the same as plotting to murder an innocent civilian. Thus, it is nothing extroardinarily damaging in the public eye for a President to be involved in ordering paralegal activities. The state does have a monopoly on violence after...