Word: desertions
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...Falaika attack may have been the first staged in Kuwait, but it was not the first time U.S. forces have been targeted in the Gulf since the end of Operation Desert Storm in 1991. In November 1995, confessed Bin Laden supporters from Saudi Arabia set off a car bomb at a joint Saudi-American training facility in Riyadh, killing four U.S. servicemen. In June 1996, attackers with alleged links to Iran detonated a massive truck bomb outside a U.S. Air Force housing complex in Khobar, eastern Saudi Arabia, killing 19 Americans. A few months later, the Saudi-born Bin Laden...
...address to Labor delegates at their annual gathering, Clinton devoted a lengthy segment to Iraq. After thanking Prime Minister Tony Blair for his support with Operation Desert Fox in December 1998—a joint Anglo-American assault launched when Hussein threw out weapons inspectors—Clinton praised him for “trying to bring America and the rest of the world to a common position” over the past few months. Despite his kind words for Blair, Clinton stressed that a pre-emptive military strike “should always be a last resort...
...labeled Iraq, in no uncertain terms, “a rogue state with weapons of mass destruction, ready to use them or provide them to terrorists, drug traffickers, or organized criminals.” Furthermore, in a national address on Dec. 16, 1998—the day that Operation Desert Fox began—he assured the American people that military strikes were needed because Hussein had historically proven that he actually would use his deadly technology. “I have no doubt today,” Clinton maintained, “that left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will...
...images. Ristelhueber instead chooses to focus on the vestiges of conflict--the remnants of troop movements, of battles, of actions taken and not being taken. She is particular fond, for example, of images of rusty cans and shells in the middle of a huge desert . (One is reminded often, in perusing the exhibit, of P.B. Shelley's timeless words from Ozymandias: "Nothing beside remains. Round the decay/Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare/The lone and level sands stretch far away.") Human suffering and become morally neutral in these photographs, as Ristelheuber deflates the concepts of good and evil, moving beyond...
...that allows for a later rapprochement. If you know one partner has lots of support, choose the other. Eventually, both exes may build new lives with new partners, and it's possible the friendship will not last or will change. But therapists emphasize how important it is not to desert the former couple. This is especially true, says nyu's Carter, if there are children. "As far as kids are concerned, the fewer broken connections, the better," she says. "Having the sense that Mom has friends who are also friends with Dad tells them that not everything in the world...