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Mumbai has always been proud of its resilience, but there is a profound sense that the city will not recover as quickly as it did after the blasts of 2003 or the train attacks of 2006. Ashish Contractor, a doctor who lives in Colaba, near Nariman House, explained that this week's attacks brought terror into the lives of Mumbai's most privileged, those who always thought of South Mumbai as an oasis from the rest of the city. "This is a totally different segment which always thought of itself as immune," he says. "Everybody in South Mumbai knows somebody...
They are "the unwanted, doing the unforgivable, for the ungrateful," according to a tattoo adorning an American private security contractor--one of the tens of thousands of mercenaries who work alongside the understaffed U.S. military in the shadows of the Iraq war. Fainaru, a Washington Post reporter and 2008 Pulitzer Prize winner, was embedded with the mercs of Crescent Security Group--a ragged outfit that "commutes to war" in armored pickup trucks from their Kuwait City villa, braving ambushes and enemy fire to help ferry convoys and cargo along Iraq's perilous highways. Some--like Jonathon Coté, a former paratrooper...
...John McCain doesn't have enough problems. It turns out that he can't even rely on the big guns of the defense industry to come to his aid. Barack Obama's campaign has pocketed $870,165 from defense-contractor sources, 34% more than the $647,313 in contributions McCain's campaign received from the same sector. Traditionally, GOP candidates - who tend to favor higher military spending than their Democratic rivals - receive more donations from defense-company political action committees and employees. You might expect the tilt in McCain's favor to be even steeper than normal, given...
...revolving door between the CIA and Beltway bandits - in other words, stop the featherbedding. There would be no more resigning from the CIA on Friday afternoon and coming back Monday morning as a contractor making three or four times the salary...
...Obama Goes to Europe I enjoyed Karen Tumulty's article and overseas interview with Barack Obama [Aug. 4]. As a military man who spent some 35 years on active duty or working as a contractor for the U.S. Air Force, I appreciated Senator Obama's comment on our military mission: "We still have the most valuable possible resource to get the job done - and that's our men and women in uniform." That statement makes him qualified in my mind to be the Commander in Chief. Sid Howard, Midwest City, Okla...