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...tune of the U.S. government. Foreign military intervention is not the answer. Instead, there should be social progress based on just relations among people and nations. The deployment of U.S. troops in the front lines of battle against Abu Sayyaf is a virtual admission by the highest civilian and military officials of the land that they are not capable of ensuring peace and order and that we need the U.S. to do our dirty work. (THE REV.) ISRAEL ISIDERIO ALVARAN Cavite, the Philippines...
...Washington Musharraf's performance over the past five months has absolved him of the taint of seizing power in a military coup in 1999. His support is growing at home as well; there's little nostalgia among ordinary Pakistanis for the endemic corruption that characterized the decade of civilian rule that preceded the coup, and his stand against extremism is popular...
...necessary.) His arguments against our military intervention in Afghanistan appeal both to our practical sense—the idea that our “war on terrorism” did not succeed in any of its stated goals—and to our moral character—that Afghan civilian deaths have been called “collateral damage,” the same term used by Timothy McVeigh to describe children who died in the Oklahoma City bombings...
...series, devoted to portrayals of the personalities who died in the Sept. 11 attacks and might have otherwise been forgotten. Pain was converted from statistics to individual people who we could connect with and believe in and reach out to; yet the media’s coverage of civilian deaths in Afghanistan was washed out by numbers and blanketed by stereotyped “evil.” Zinn wrote, “What if all those Americans who declare their support for Bush’s ‘war on terrorism’ could see, instead of those...
...result from the scheming of discriminatory military brass, and certainly did not intend to stymie Harvard cadets from seeking an education. Yet, ROTC is counter-intuitively banned from campus and directly associated with the policy’s creation and implementation. Does the ban make any sense? Civilian government, the very people we vote for, shoulders the responsibility for the policy, but groups and events associated with our government here on campus don’t seem to suffer from the protests and banishment that ROTC cadets have encountered. Is it perhaps just easier to protest and target those...