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...Person of the Year should have been Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. His speech to the U.N. General Assembly aside, he has single-handedly changed the political makeup of Latin America for the benefit of all citizens, not just the rich. Roy Dickinson Fort Pierce, Florida...
...year [Dec. 25, 2006?Jan. 1, 2007] should have been Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. His speech to the U.N. General Assembly aside, he has single-handedly changed the political makeup of Latin America for the benefit of all citizens, not just the rich. Roy Dickinson Fort Pierce, Florida...
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...military is pushing ahead as before. It was announced that the 2nd Brigade of the 82nd Airborne Division is preparing to go from Fort Bragg to Kuwait, where they will be the reserves ready to head into Iraq. The All-Americans, as the brigade is known, are paratroopers by training and have historically had clearly defined mission - as their homepage puts it, "execute a parachute assault, conduct combat operations, and WIN." But unless this moment of rumination results in actual strategic change on the ground, it is unlikely that the brigade will be doing what it was trained...
...Last summer Lieut. General David Petraeus invited me out to visit the U.S. Army Combined Arms Center at Fort Leavenworth, Kans. Every U.S. Army major spends a midcareer year going to school there. Most of these officers are headed to Iraq or Afghanistan, and the curriculum has been revised to include intensive language courses in Arabic and Pashtu, the history and culture of Islam, a hefty dose of counterinsurgency strategy and tactics, plus the standard military disciplines. I came away inspired and infuriated: if only the Bush Administration?and the public?took the mission as seriously as the Army does...