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...look at Pakistan, this is really a ticking time bomb,” Allison said. “It’s hanging by the thread of Gen. Pervez Musharraf. And he’s twice been within a second and a half of assassination the last six months...
...Charleston, the Harvard contingent split into four groups, each volunteering for a specific candidate. Students were out in support of Kerry, Edwards, Gov. Howard Dean, D-Vt., and Gen. Wesley Clark...
...There] is the emphasis on foreign cultures, which again I think reflects the fact that as late as World War II, when the Gen Ed program was introduced, we saw ourselves only temporarily involved in an international conflict, and it wasn’t until later that we saw that we were going to be increasingly and permanently involved in a more and more interdependent series of countries that made an emphasis in the Core Curriculum along these lines more necessary,” Bok said...
...Lyndie England, the most prominent face of the abuse scandal, claims, “I was instructed by persons in higher rank to ‘stand there, hold this leash, look at the camera.’” Maj. Gen. Antonio Taquba, who led the initial investigation into the abuses, has spoken of an overall “failure of leadership.” In the military, the chain of command goes all the way to the top. A scandal of this magnitude leads to the secretary of defense, and ultimately to the commander-in-chief...
...irony in the idea of the U.S. military paying salaries to insurgents as an incentive to get them to stop fighting, that doesn't appear to be stopping the military from considering a similar plan to co-opt Sadrists into security forces for the Shiite cities. Brig. Gen. Martin Dempsey of the 1st Armored Division has proposed creating a Najaf Brigade to police the city, which would initially comprise 1,800 men drawn from militias loyal to local tribal chiefs and to the various Shiite political parties, and could include members of Moqtada Sadr's Mehdi militia. Dempsey proposed similar...