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...change to mobilize. Political insiders, however, sensed in the ousting of Aspin what they termed "inoculation" politics: the White House wanted to ward off Republican criticism of defense cuts. Though White House officials say there was no single incident that led to Aspin's departure, the murderous firefight in Mogadishu made it a foregone conclusion, especially after it was followed by a disastrous closed-door briefing to Congress at which Aspin was reportedly at a loss to describe the Administration's intentions in Somalia. But as far back as September, Aspin was seeing signs that Clinton's doubts about...
...caught in the middle of the fight over allowing gays in the military. His disorganized, professorial style alienated many in the Pentagon, and in October he was criticized in Congress for his not sending armored vehicles to troops in Somalia who were later caught and decimated in a firefight...
...They were angered by the viciousness of the assault on the peacekeepers. Gunmen had used women and children as human shields, and mutilated the corpses of the fallen Pakistanis. Aidid hardly showed remorse. A few days prior to the U.S. raid he blamed the U.N. for provoking the lethal firefight. "Unfortunately," he boasted, "I have no power or authority to arrest them...
...sickening politicization of judicial appointments that has taken place in and around Room SR-325 has all but destroyed the climate necessary for rational discussion and debate about matters of jurisprudence. The lesson learned from the political firefight and subsequent defeat of Robert H. Bork in the fall of 1987 was that the worst possible baggage that a that a nominee could be saddled with was a well-documented record on a range of issues...
...drug dealer needs a beeper and a gun. Kids who are not actually dealers pack a gun to pretend that they are. A gun makes a man-child dangerous and commands respect. As the cartoon figure He-Man says, "I have the power!" A firefight may be set off by a drug turf war or, as with Tyrone and Ian, some lesser thing. Children kill children over earrings and jackets and tennis shoes...