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CAIRO, Egypt—Cairo has not met my wildest imaginations. My “Erol of Arabia” dreams of racing across the desert on a black Arabian horse, scimitar in hand, screaming, wearing a kafiyya, then arriving in Cairo, making a cameo at a local protest, with bullhorn in my other hand, burning a few flags and finally sheesha-smoking the night away has not been realized. Instead, I unglamorously touched down in an airplane, took a cab to my bare hostel room and have spent most nights studying Arabic. I have not been on a horse...
...Massive sweep operations such as Operation Desert Sidewinder certainly help root out insurgents. But their ability to do so also depends primarily on good intelligence, which in turn requires the goodwill of the locals. And the very nature of the sweep operations often functions to alienate the local population, which at best makes the U.S. forces' job more difficult and at worst grows the insurgency...
...move to go on the offensive was what Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld called "a three-minute decision. The first two are for coffee." The raid that netted Mahmud was part of an Iraq-wide campaign, Operation Desert Scorpion, aimed at rooting out ex-regime leaders and commanders. The best harvest last week came in Tikrit, Saddam's hometown, where, apart from Mahmud, U.S. forces rounded up more than 50 suspected members of Saddam's military, intelligence and paramilitary services. Desert Scorpion was modeled after an earlier operation, Peninsula Strike, in which 4,000 troops, drawn mostly from the 4th Infantry...
...show M*A*S*H (1972 to 1983), the Oscar-nominated Tootsie (1982) and the Tony Award--winning City of Angels (1989). By now Gelbart would be forgiven if he gracefully bowed out of show business and spent the rest of his days lying by the pool in Palm Desert, Calif., where he has a second home. But that's not in the script. For Gelbart, the show goes...
Although Gelbart and his wife Pat, whom he married in 1956, usually spend half the week at their Palm Desert retreat, they rarely miss Monday-night dinner with their children, grandchildren and great-grandchild. Gelbart bobs up and down at the table, changing seats to talk with as many family members as possible. The conversation stays light, centered on family events and happenings...