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...report on the U.S. military's frustrating struggle in Iraq sparked comment from readers who oppose the war. Others who wrote despaired of the costs of the conflict but could see no easy way out. Some letter writers, however, felt that questioning U.S. actions only gives comfort to the enemy...
...failing to thwart the Iraqi insurgency at its start. I contend that the situation was in no way secret. Non-Americans knew even before the war began that if the U.N. didn't run the postwar occupation, a disaster was inevitable. The U.S. is the dinosaur of modern conflict - all brute force with a peanut-size brain, completely outdated in a world where credibility comes first. Sam Smith Oxford, England...
...lost the iraq war long ago. George W. Bush had no idea what he was getting us into. Now we all know that bluster and posturing don't win a conflict. If we can't stabilize Iraq, how can that country's ragtag police ever do so? Maybe peace would come if our occupation forces left. Gary Wilson North East, Maryland...
...Caucasus Front," praising it as proof that the strategy introduced by the Chechen insurgency's new leader, Abdul Khalim Sadulayev, was working. The 37-year-old cleric took over after his more moderate predecessor, Aslan Maskhadov, was killed in March. Since then, the tone and tactics of the conflict have taken a firmly radical turn. Rebel leaders go beyond criticizing the West's failure to denounce Russia's brutal tactics in Chechnya; they increasingly reject Western values based, they say, on "materialism and atheism." A "discussion document" circulating among Chechen guerrillas singles out Afghanistan's Taliban regime as the most...
...advisory committee. Of the six deans Summers has named to lead Harvard’s faculties during his four-year tenure, five have come from within Harvard.The central issues likely to face the next dean of HBS include defining the fundamental meaning of a graduate business education, resolving the conflict between the school’s dual purpose as a center for academic research and as a professional school, and addressing the school’s growing international role.And because the HBS deanship holds such a respected place in business academia, the new dean’s leadership will extend...