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Young men had been very worried about the draft. It was going to take over and possibly destroy their lives, this thing that they didn’t even want to do. The draft lottery was sometime during sophomore year, in ’69 or ’70. I remember watching the lottery...
...couldn't be higher. War with North Korea, Bush told his aides, was out of the question. He could not let Kim alter the fragile balance of power on the Korean peninsula, where 37,000 U.S. troops stand across the DMZ from a million-man army close enough to destroy Seoul, South Korea's capital, in a blitzkreig. By Bush's own doctrine of pre-emption, the U.S. should strike against any state with weapons of mass destruction and an irresponsible dictator. But the consequences of attacking Pyongyang are unacceptable. What Bush apparently never anticipated was a brazen admission that...
...person who supports war with Iraq is effectively justifying the Sept. 11 attacks. If it is not humane for others to destroy U.S. cities and government buildings, then how can America justify destroying theirs? It is immoral to rally in support of the bloodshed that a war on Iraq will cause. I feel sad for the people of Iraq, who live in fear of an imminent attack that will dwarf Sept. 11 in destruction and loss of life. GRANT LA HOOD Auckland, New Zealand...
...said that Israel is in possession of enough weapons of mass destruction to destroy the entire Middle East, and that the U.S. wants to attack Hussein to eliminate a threat to Israeli authority in the region...
...United States too has failed Colombia. During the Clinton administration, aid to Colombia was limited to anti-drug efforts. Military equipment used to destroy some poor farmer’s only cash crop could not be deployed against the rebels. The United States let its obsession with the drug war blind it to the real problem—millions of acres of fertile coca-growing land under the authority of left-wing thugs...