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...support also extends to the thousands of Arabs, civilian and otherwise, who have died and will continue to die under American bombs. We support life and freedom...
Still, I brood about whether I am prepared for the horrors of what will come next, either the carnage of a ground war or the full revelation of civilian casualties within Iraq and Kuwait. Despite my informed consent as a citizen, a wave of queasiness hit me with the first air strikes against Baghdad. But then the euphoric opening days of the war made it seem as if America had perfected the neutron bomb in reverse: high-tech weaponry that only destroyed buildings, while leaving people miraculously unharmed. Even now, after more than a week of war, the cameras have...
...antiwar effort argue that the armed services have benefited from an inadvertent "poverty draft." Says Damu Smith, of the National African-American Network Against U.S. Intervention in the Gulf: "Young African Americans have been compelled to go into the military because of the lack of opportunity in the civilian sector." Moreover, says civil rights activist Mary Frances Berry, blacks keenly sense the irony of being asked to defend freedom in Kuwait by the same President who vetoed the 1990 civil rights bill...
...responses reflect personal history as much as political philosophy. Most Israeli youngsters have remained relatively sheltered from war. The 1973 and 1982 conflicts were fought far from Israel's civilian population. When the Israel Defense Forces began to distribute gas masks to citizens last October, few parents expected they would ever need to be used, a view they conveyed to their offspring. Now, with air raids sounding almost nightly and schools closed as a safety measure, many children feel a sense of betrayal. "You told me we would never have to go into the sealed room," said an 11-year...
...Iraq has reported 300 civilian deaths since...