Word: civilizations
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...Malawi. Brad Pitt helped produce and Nicole Kidman narrates God Grew Tired of Us, a documentary currently in cinemas about the Lost Boys of Sudan. It follows the lives of youngsters who, separated from their parents, banded together and walked more than a thousand miles to escape the civil war. As some of them eventually are resettled in the U.S., they face a whole new set of challenges (including escalators and freezers...
...Among the report's recommendations: Don't side with one faction in Iraq over another - history has shown that trying to pick a winner in a civil war rarely succeeds. Don't push for a three-way partition of the country as some in Congress have advocated - except for the Kurds, most Iraqis oppose it. Don't dump the problem on the United Nations, which isn't equipped to handle...
...humanitarian catastrophe inside Iraq will be horrific, but unless the U.S. is prepared intervene with 450,000 soldiers, the report recommends that it should pull its smaller force "back from Iraqi population centers" to safe havens "and refocus American efforts from preventing civil war to containing...
...Defense Department has no comment on the Brookings report, or on what kind of contingency planning it has under way in the event of catastrophic failure and an all-out civil war. Bush's new strategy - sending 21,500 more troops to Iraq - "is designed for victory," says a Pentagon official. "And that is what we're moving out on." But Pollock hopes the generals are thinking as much about Plan B, "because as much as we hope Plan A works, at this late date...
...virtual civil war weren't a problem enough, Iraq had to face down an armed uprising by a group that allegedly had a lot in common with the Branch Davidians - a millenarian cult led by a charismatic messiah figure who believed that it could bring about the end of the world. Indeed, the man who was hailed as the Mahdi - an Islamic figure who arrives with the cosmic apocalypse - wasn't just defending a military encampment in the holy city of Najaf from the Iraqi Army. He and his followers were protecting land that had been the cult's home...