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...next question is how a President Kerry intends to win more support for American foreign policy abroad by insulting those governments that have stood by us thus far. There are now 10,000 troops, representing several European allies, under Polish command in southern Iraq. The Poles, for their part, have not been able to obtain the same privileged visa-free status that French and German travelers now hold to enter the U.S. This remains State Department policy in spite of the fact that France and Germany, unlike Poland, are known to have terrorist cells operating on their soil. Polish companies...
...heart of Kerry's approach, like Bush's, is to give the U.N. and NATO larger roles going forward, that still leaves the question of whether it would work; coordinating a multinational force can be more challenging than relying on a single nation's chain of command. Here it is Kerry's turn to balance political needs against military ones. He believes that democracy and civil society cannot be imposed on an unwilling populace, so NATO and the U.N. have a better chance of success than the U.S. acting alone because whatever Iraqi leadership emerged would be perceived as more...
Rand Beers says he has taken two big risks in his life. The first was in Vietnam in May 1967 when, as a desk officer at a Marine command post, he extended his tour of duty on the condition he be given a frontline rifle company to lead. "I thought I was immortal," says Beers, now 61. He survived the experience and returned to Washington in the early 1970s to settle into a long, safe career as a national-security bureaucrat...
Administration backers say U.S. commanders have wisely absorbed the lesson of British colonial rule that a heavy military presence in the streets is an irritant, not a reassurance. But the U.S. has also been moving its forces out of the cities into walled-off garrisons to reduce American casualties. Now in the midst of the largest troop rotation since World War II, the Pentagon is replacing seasoned Army combat divisions, in part, with Marines and a sizable corps of reserve and National Guard units (they will make up nearly 40% of the post-June force) unfamiliar with the country, lacking...
...Well, the human embryos in question are mostly ‘leftover’ embryos that were going to be discarded anyway, so...” While this may be true, it obscures the underlying issue: namely, the moral status of those embryos. If embryos command the same legal claims as human beings, then we no more have the right to harvest their organs than we would those of death row prisoners or fetuses scheduled for abortion. (Plus, many people believe it is deplorable that “leftover” embryos are regularly destroyed at IVF clinics...