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...Washington knows how close they actually are to the Bomb. But our ability to endure a standoff requires fostering a stable democracy on Iran's borders so Afghanistan and Iraq become bulwarks against theocracy rather than conduits for it. It requires leading our Western allies by persuasion, not command, once again. And it requires confronting great challenges at home: above all, our dependence on foreign oil. There is no guarantee containment will succeed; there never was. But patience, combined with self- improvement, can be a sign of strength. Panic never...
...split within the security forces deepened on May 22, when rebel soldiers in the hills above Dili were joined by the head of the military police, Lieutenant Commander Alfredo Reinado, and 28 of his men. Reinado tells Time that the second in command of the nation's armed forces, Colonel Lere Anan Timur, summoned Reinado to his headquarters at Tasi Tolu, on the city's western outskirts. The two men traveled to the airport, where a tense meeting took place with Defense Minister Roques Rodrigues. "I heard the Colonel say: "I can destroy them all and rebuild again tomorrow,'' Reinado...
...Under his command, the rebels have managed to seize and hold the heights overlooking the three main access roads into the capital. At times they have probed Dili's outer suburbs, menacing the Army headquarters with a brazen attack on the barracks at the city's edge...
...magazine's cover story on Gore, written by John Heilemann, carried the headline: THE UN-HILLARY. And while Gore was basking in solar-drenched adulation at Cannes, Clinton was presenting her own energy plan in an hourlong wonkathon at the National Press Club in Washington. As Clinton showed her command of the intricacies of carbon-dioxide sequestration and cellulosic ethanol, it was impossible not to wonder whether the two of them might once again be crowding onto the same turf. Maureen Dowd wrote in the New York Times: "Al Gore must want to punch Hillary Clinton right through the hole...
...some men in Kilo Company apparently snap? Perhaps because of the stress of fighting a violent and unpopular war--or because their commanders failed them. Military psychiatrists who have studied what makes a soldier's moral compass go haywire in battle look first for a weak chain of command. That was a factor in the March 1968 My Lai massacre in Vietnam, when U.S. soldiers, including members of an Army platoon led by Lieut. William Calley, killed some 500 Vietnamese. Says a retired Army Green Beret colonel who fought in Vietnam: "Somebody has failed to say, 'No, that...