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Twenty-nine-year-old Makasan Halee sits cross-legged on the bare concrete floor of his family home and vows vengeance against his father's killers. "I am so angry now that I will kill to defend my family and my faith," says Makasan. "I want revenge." Crowded around him in the front room of his modest house last Thursday are a couple of dozen grieving, enraged relatives and friends. Along with several hundred other impoverished rubber tappers, Makasan lives in Som, a dusty village situated in Pattani province in Thailand's deep south. The villagers are mourning the loss...
...people could take their pick. You could see, for the first time, the coffins of dead soldiers, wrapped tight like a gift in the flag for which they fought. You could mourn the one whose name was familiar, the football star who took a million-dollar pay cut to defend his country after 9/11. You could listen, for the first time, to the Pentagon leaders admitting that they would need both more troops and more money to get the job done. A year ago, the war planners figured that 200 armored humvees would be enough for the invasion and occupation...
...long as U.S. troops are spread out across the country to douse local flare-ups, the supply lines will be long and the convoys vulnerable to roadside bombs and ambushes. The only way to protect such convoys is to make them big and mean enough to defend themselves against attack. That may mean adding air cover, usually helicopter gunships like the Army's AH-64 Apache or the Marines' AH-1 Cobra--which in turn would require more troops and more choppers than are available in the theater at the moment. Although vital supplies are getting through, there are shortages...
...inevitably means being ideologically lumped together with other conservatives on and off campus. This is a common liberal rejoinder: “Well, what do you think of Ann Coulter? She’s crazy!” You see, Harvard conservatives don’t just need to defend their personal politics; they must also answer for the perceived crimes of Ann Coulter, Bill O’Reilly and Rush Limbaugh. However, because of Harvard’s immense liberal community, there’s no comparable baggage for campus liberals; they aren’t harassed over...
...this way—reflexively demonizing their conservative counterparts—fail to realize that liberal-conservative labeling obscures many substantial differences in personal opinions. The Moral Reasoning 22, or “Justice,” student critiquing John Rawls in section will forevermore be called upon to defend the “conservative” viewpoint in any discussion...