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Besides working to identify what objects are missing, academics have proposed policy measures to combat their illegal circulation. These include a temporary moratorium on the trade of Near Eastern antiquities, tight controls at Iraq’s borders and airports, including the right to search and seizure, amnesty for those who return stolen objects and rapid reconstruction of Iraq’s museums and archeological facilities...
...much for the cushy life of the weekend warrior. It's a far cry from the Vietnam era, when draft-age sons of privilege (including the current Commander in Chief) sought out spots in the reserves and the National Guard as an alternative to facing combat. These days, 220,000 Guard members and reservists are stationed around the globe in peacekeeping operations, the battle against terrorism, homeland security and now the war in Iraq. Last month an Illinois Guardsman died in an ambush in Afghanistan; so far, at least eight members of the reserves and the National Guard have died...
...military felt isolated from the American public, the idea was that the nation would never again go to war without putting its reservists on the line along with active-duty troops. That concept of guaranteeing that a broad spectrum of Americans was part of the nation's combat missions has worked. Reservists logged 2 million days of duty a decade ago; last year the total climbed to 15 million. But lawmakers have begun to wonder about the implications for a future in which military missions that might once have been temporary begin to look permanent. "You have to be realistic...
...meantime, he and others could savor what had just happened--after 20 days, a 350-mile charge to Baghdad, 32,000 combat missions, 20,000 bombs--and what had not yet occurred. The country's major cities fell without the weeks of grinding door-to-door fighting that many had feared. Fewer than 120 U.S. soldiers perished, a figure at the low end of the most hopeful forecasts. Iraq's bridges and dams and essential infrastructure survived. While no arsenal of chemical and biological weapons had yet been found, those arms had also not been used--on U.S. forces...
...government has argued that these infringements on civil liberties are narrow measures needed to combat terrorism and has assured the public that people will only be declared “enemy combatants” in legitimate cases of national security. But even if the government honors its pledge, it has exceeded its Constitutional authority—all Americans deserve the liberties afforded to them by the Bill of Rights, whether they are accused of terrorism or tax evasion...