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...operation were underway and that U.S. forces were striking "selected targets to undermine Saddam's ability to wage war." He warned Americans to expect a protracted campaign that he said was an essential part of keeping U.S. cities safe from terror attacks, and warned them also to expect Iraqi civilian casualties. U.S. forces would, he said, "make every effort to spare innocent civilians," but that Saddam had deliberately deployed many of his defenses in civilian areas...
...Saddam knows the U.S. would prefer to avoid a street-by-street battle for Baghdad, which would almost certainly bring high civilian casualties, and even significant losses on the U.S. side as American technological superiority is partially blunted by the built environment. He may see his best hope lies in forcing the invaders into a fight for the capital. If Saddam's survival concept is based on the political effects of a Baghdad-as-Stalingrad scenario, that may prompt him, at least initially, to keep any chemical and biological munitions tethered and gird for a defense of the capital...
...objection to the Oscars is not with the ceremony; in fact, I harbor a certain affection for the constellations of borrowed jewelry and for the tragically misguided hairstyle and wardrobe decisions the evening engenders. No, my objection is to the idea that civilian judgments about movies can be so easily validated or dismissed by the Academy’s awarding of little golden statuettes. Yes, the members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences are better versed in—well—the arts and sciences of the motion picture than we are, but we all know...
...what sort of war it turns out to be. "If it is a military campaign of two or three days, everything becomes easier," a U.S. official told me several months ago when war was becoming more likely. "But if we get bogged down two or three months, with civilian casualties and destruction, it is a different story. This could unleash the breakup of Iraq. It is hard to break a cycle of collapse. Nobody can really say we have the means of handling the problems of Iraq after Saddam is gone...
...just responsibility for a huge arc of turf, from the Horn of Africa to Pakistan, that is home to some of the world's most dangerous neighborhoods. Franks' job--held in the past by such men as Norman Schwarzkopf and Anthony Zinni--is to meet and befriend the civilian leaders of each of the region's 25 countries in case the U.S. needs to drop in on short notice to clean things up. When that time comes, the general has to call Washington and ask for troops from all over the U.S. and the world, both active duty and reserve...