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...protect them. Being set upon by the people it was sent to protect is a searing indictment of MONUC. "There is a huge amount of genuine frustration," admits Doss. "I understand it. I would be less than honest if I said we could guarantee the protection of every civilian...
...looting and commits war crimes on a daily basis. Crippling its ability to rise above this behavior, a small number of MONUC soldiers have engaged in the same kinds of sexual assaults practiced by the nastiest of Congo's armed groups, resulting in 40 being sent home, nine civilian staff members being charged and one more being sacked. MONUC is also investigating possible arms- and gold-trafficking by Pakistani soldiers. Tatiana Carayannis, a Congo expert at New York City's Social Science Research Council, concludes, "It's not quite hell, but we're at a turning point here. Congo could...
Meltzer co-authored an article with Law School Professor Richard H. Fallon in 2007 which asserted that, contrary to Bush-era legal doctrine, civilians held in the United States or Guantanamo Bay as enemy combatants have the right to challenge their detainment in a civilian court...
...with most Federal Government arcana, there are arguments on both sides of Obama's leaky lobbyist ban. Lynn, Obama's choice to serve as the Pentagon's No. 2 civilian, got high marks for struggling to bring some accountability to Pentagon spending when he served as its top money manager from 1997 to 2001. By one account, he reduced the amount of undocumented Pentagon spending from $2.3 trillion to $1.3 trillion (before the federal banking bailout, only at the Pentagon could $1.3 trillion in undocumented spending be deemed progress...
...larger and better-equipped Indian rival represents no threat. It is to counteract India's conventional military superiority that Pakistan has developed unconventional capabilities, from its nuclear weapons arsenal to its covert arming and training of Islamist insurgents to fight India in Kashmir. Despite efforts of Pakistan's civilian government to retire those tactics and promote peace talks with India, critics say some elements within the Pakistani military have not relinquished their proxy warfare capability - and they are maintaining links with militant groups who have attacked U.S. and allied troops in Afghanistan. (Read "Obama's Daunting Task in Afghanistan...