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...unstated promise is that soldiers are sent to war only as a last resort, to defend their country from harm. But while the threat posed by Saddam was chief among the stated justifications, George W. Bush's war was always about more than the weapons that have yet to be found. The son of the President who had trouble with the Vision Thing offered a vision so broad it bent the horizon: this was nothing less than a "battle for the future of the Muslim world," an expression of American idealism in all its arrogant generosity. Once again, we thought...
...three-way tug-of-war. One Marine, training in Kuwait's northern desert and waiting for war to begin, wondered whether protesters would spit on him when he came home. But for all the dissension, no one was blaming the soldiers: antiwar demonstrators argued they were fighting to defend our troops against an ill-conceived mission based on distorted intelligence. Even Howard Dean, whose antiwar campaign ambushed the Democratic Party, criticized Bush for asking too much of the nation's soldiers and reserves and diverting attention from more imminent threats...
...defend Barea, Sullivan chose the ever foul-prone sophomore guard Michael Beal, who fouled out again Friday night with 46 seconds to play, marking the fifth time this season Beal has had to leave a game early...
...class, for example, I give my last class on Dec. 15 and my exam on Jan. 24. There’s nobody on earth who’s going to defend that as a good thing,” Harris said...
...University president to defend Harvard’s nondiscrimination policy, not to temper his support of the military. Within Harvard’s diverse gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered community many share his feelings about the military, and others no doubt would welcome the opportunity to serve our country in uniform. “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” weakens our military by depriving it of sorely needed talent and distracting it from its vital mission. President Summers has every right to support the military, but he has no right to welcome their...