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...Afghanistan and Iraq is summed up in a quote in Tim McGirk's article "War in the Shadows" [Oct. 10]. He wrote that after an ambush outside Kandahar, an American officer directed his men not to shoot wildly at the shadows flitting through the chaos because "Dammit! It's civilians mixed with enemy." The U.S. is trying to fight a gentleman's war. There will be civilian casualties in any war. We have to quit trying to pick and choose when we raise our weapons. Either get out now or fight. Denise Fitzgerald Shelby Township, Michigan...
...better,” said McCarthy. “It does not require a social movement to create social change.” The nation recognized Park’s contribution to society in 1996 when she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, an award to outstanding civilians, and in 1999 when she received the Congressional Gold Medal, the nation’s highest civilian honor. Her hometown of Detroit, Mich. also named a street in her honor. “I think she’ll be remembered in many ways, perhaps most profoundly as an ordinary citizen...
...Afghanistan and Iraq is summed up in a quote in Tim McGirk's article "War in the Shadows" [Oct. 10]. He wrote that after an ambush outside Kandahar, an American officer directed his men not to shoot wildly at the shadows flitting through the chaos because "Dammit! It's civilians mixed with enemy." The U.S. is trying to fight a gentleman's war. There are civilian casualties in any war. We have to quit trying to pick and choose when we fire. Either get out now or fight...
...politically infallible, and his proteges in North Korea are just as bloody-minded. Over the decades since their invasion of the South was beaten back, the North Koreans have sent down waves of assassins and saboteurs, seized warships and cargo vessels at sea, blown up at least one civilian airliner, hacked U.S. truce guards to death with axes and committed other barbarities without the slightest sign of self-doubt. After Kim Il Sung died in 1994, his son and apparent successor Kim Jong Il displayed the same steely confidence in his own political correctness. So last September, when a North...
Since the Sept. 11 attacks, examples of the expanded scope of military power in civilian life have been inauspicious. Americans have become too acclimated to the presence of heavily armed military personnel on their public transportation systems and in public spaces. Military recruiters and their bigoted policies are being forced back upon university campuses with threats of cutting all federal aid to these institutions—money which, by the way, universities use in epidemiological research...