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...munitions dumps were, wouldn't you send a missile or two right off the bat to destroy the enemy's fighting capabilities? The International Atomic Energy Agency alerted U.S. officials about the dangerous weapons at al-Qaqaa in January 2003. The proper question isn't, When did the arms disappear? The question is, Why weren't they marked for destruction before our troops started moving up the road toward them? I always thought disrupting the enemy's supply chain?especially its weaponry?was a basic strategy of offense. Tim Coney Medford...
...munitions dumps were, wouldn't you send a missile or two right off the bat to destroy the enemy's fighting capabilities? The International Atomic Energy Agency alerted U.S. officials about the dangerous weapons at al-Qaqaa in January 2003. The proper question isn't, When did the arms disappear? The question is, Why weren't they marked for destruction before our troops started moving up the road toward them? I always thought disrupting the enemy's supply chain - especially its weaponry - was a basic strategy of offense. Tim Coney Medford, Oregon, U.S. Building a Language Barrier "French Plays Defense...
...second straight game, the Harvard men’s basketball team trailed early on but managed to claw back for a tie during the second half. But for the second straight game, the Crimson watched the score, and the ball, disappear into its opponent’s hands...
...Instead, Taniguchi created an elegant, understated jewel box of a structure true to one of the guiding principles of his career: as a place for people and art to interact, the museum building should all but disappear. "Architecture is essentially a container for people and what's inside," says Taniguchi. "My architecture should not compete for attention if it is trying to fulfill that mission. Also, this is the Museum of Modern Art, one of the finest collections of art in the world. How do you compete with that? I don't think you should compete...
...history teaches that violent attacks on insurgencies such as the campaign mounted by the U.S. in Fallujah can work. "You don't just keep growing insurgents," Scales says. "By effectively eliminating the hard-core terrorists, the fellow travelers see the handwriting on the wall. While the insurgency doesn't disappear, it tends to collapse to something down around noise level." But if Fallujah is a sign of things to come, the volume is likely to get cranked up first. --Reported by Andrew Lee Butters/Mosul, Aparisim Ghosh and Phil Zabriskie/Baghdad, and Mark Thompson/Washington