Word: civilianized
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...would be hard to design a more tragically absurd war than the one raging in Liberia. Battles are fought mainly by untrained, doped-up kids from the countryside, and no one on either side has effective command of the ragtag militias. The majority of casualties are civilian. Most combatants avoid fighting, preferring to spray bullets at the other side and then run. The rebels' only stated goal is the ouster of President Charles Taylor, a recently indicted war criminal who insists he is willing to step down and go into exile in Nigeria but keeps creating excuses to postpone...
...further delay has become untenable, in the face of the mounting civilian death toll and the burgeoning humanitarian crisis. The undisciplined young fighters wildly trading fire on the capital's streets may have rendered the peacekeeping mission far more difficult. It's one thing putting troops in between two armies that have agreed on a cease-fire; quite another when their job is to fight their way in and impose a truce on both - and to do so as the city's food and drinking water supplies dwindle and cholera becomes a real threat. The most immediate cause cited...
...Pentagon's civilian hawks did, indeed, try and prove Mylroie's thesis. Former CIA director James Woolsey, a fervent advocate of pursuing Mylroie's thesis was sent abroad by Wolfowitz to collect evidence to support her claims, and returned empty-handed...
...family, assured them he would be fine. Parson had enlisted in the military in 1994--initially as a Marine--because he wanted to see the world. But when his father died in 1998, Parson left the Marines and returned to Kannapolis to help out his mother and sister. Civilian life didn't agree with him, however, and he eventually joined the Army. In February he was posted to Friedberg, Germany, and took along his wife Mary Elizabeth and their three children. But while conducting a raid on a house in Baghdad, Parson, a trained sniper, was shot and killed...
...face U.S. military tribunals, whose due-process standards are criticized throughout Europe as shameful. The two men have spent months locked up but, like all the estimated 680 other inmates from 42 countries, have been denied lawyers and not been charged. In a military tribunal, other protections of the civilian U.S. justice system would be denied them. They would be required to use a U.S. military lawyer, for example, and not allowed to see "secret" evidence. For the Brits, what especially rankles is the contrast between these suspects' treatment and that accorded John Walker Lindh, the "American Taliban" caught...