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...Washington never had their illusions challenged by daily reality, those sent to do the fighting were quickly apprised of the fact that for many South Vietnamese, the invaders were not the North Vietnamese, but the Americans. And often they found themselves in situations where their enemy included the civilian population of South Vietnam that supported and sustained the Vietcong guerrillas...
...arrest drivers who've committed relatively trivial traffic violations, like not wearing a seat belt. Not surprisingly, the implicated drivers tend not to be particularly happy about being handcuffed, taken to the station and fingerprinted. But now, thanks to a 5-4 ruling from the Supreme Court, such civilian complaints will fall on deaf ears...
...February 9, the Greeneville, demonstrating its maneuvers for an on-board civilian audience, struck the Japanese fisheries training boat Ehime Maru, killing nine passengers. The disaster strained U.S. relations with Japan and raised serious questions about the U.S. Navy's practice of taking civilians onto active military vessels...
...what does the Greeneville collision mean for the future of civilian visitations...
Death before dishonor, it was once said. Today, though, the watchword for our military and its civilian chiefs seems to be dishonor before death. The spy plane fracas is a small matter, really, but there is still a word for what the Bush administration did to get our men and women home from Hainan. It is a word from an earlier time, when a fascist state wanted not Taiwan and the South China Sea, but Danzig and Vienna, the Rhineland and Prague...