Word: fiascos
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...military certainly has ugly memories of Somalia. But if it did choose to strike at targets there, the Pentagon would be unlikely to repeat the mistakes of the 1993 Mogadishu fiasco. A more likely scenario would be the Afghanistan model of air power used in combination with local proxy forces - the Ethiopians come to mind, although there would be plenty of local warlords open to turning against any Al Qaeda elements for a small...
...years. The country needed assistance to be free of the misery, famine and destruction imposed on it for ages by its neighbors and by civil unrest. Now, under the guidance of the inexperienced President Bush, one cannot look for anything sane or merciful. I don't expect this fiasco to be over soon. EVERTON M. SANTOS Brasilia...
...warned them about the symptoms. By week's end, 35 postal facilities had been tested, and the U.S. Capitol police had announced that anthrax had been found in three more congressional offices, all in the Longworth House Office Building. Privately, Bush advisers in the Capitol were using words like "fiasco" and "failure" to describe the White House handling of the anthrax crisis. Even Republican Congressmen were shaking their heads. "I think people are much more supportive of the Administration's handling of the terrorism abroad than they are of the public-health response," said a veteran Republican lawmaker from...
...After the Bay of Pigs fiasco, JFK said to then-CIA director Allen Dulles, "If this were a parliamentary system, I?d have to resign. But it?s not - and that means...
...German submarines landed teams of four people each at Amagansett, N.Y., and Ponte Vedra, Fla. The Germans were supposed to blow up hydroelectric plants, key railroad junctions and spread terror in New York by bombing railroad stations and Jewish-owned department stores. The operation was a fiasco; within two weeks, all eight men were caught (six were later executed), but the threat was, and is, real...