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...anymore, it's domestic. President Bush declared a state of emergency and called up the reserves; Congress wrote a $40 billion check. Soldiers at home and around the world were on high alert, and ready. "This nation is peaceful, but fierce when stirred to anger," the President said. "This conflict was begun on the timing and terms of others. It will end in a way and at an hour of our choosing." But it 1945-1955 The decade after 1945 saw jubilation at the arrival of peace, and anxiety as the Cold War took shape — and a wedding took...
...with the gun is playful and innocent; he is not trying to cause an international incident. The sex-crazed Japanese girl is a recognizably troubled adolescent, quite unaware of the largely hormonal firestorm raging within her. The Mexican au pair is a kindly and responsible woman, caught in conflict between the needs of her beloved charges and the call of a central event in her family's life. Her crisis is the more powerful for the way it takes her, unaware of the gathering threat, to the brink of madness and death. It is a measure of Gonz?...
...preserve the selective service system in the event there were to be some catastrophic conflict that would require putting 20 million people in uniform like we did in World War II, but I don't foresee at this stage the likelihood of that...
...although it’s actually quite striking, even in today’s asymmetric warfare, how much people on opposite sides are speaking the same language. You saw that in the conflict in Lebanon last summer, where both Hezbollah and the Israelis were citing UN Security Council resolutions, and were claiming that tactics used on the other side were “disproportionate” or “not necessary.” They had very different understandings of what those words meant, and they were citing very different Security Council resolutions, but they were all playing...
...other than American courts and the American Supreme Court to be concerned about, but there is the court of public opinion. And I think the lawyers advising the Bush administration missed an opportunity to use law to structure a more workable and acceptable approach and strategy in the current conflict...