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...bigger question was why they had been absent for so long. In the 1980s, Dover, which houses America's largest military mortuary, was a stage for public grief: the 241 Marines killed in Lebanon in 1983, the crew of the space shuttle Challenger and the casualties of Panama and Grenada all passed through for publicized ceremonies attended by politicians and widows. Then, at the start of the first Gulf War in January 1991, the Pentagon barred media from the ritual. Critics speculated that the White House wanted to avoid the embarrassment it suffered two years earlier, when networks showed coffins...
Violence which is in the context of war is paralegal. Or to dumb it down for Buttigieg, if you happen kill people while fighting in Grenada, it is not quite the same as plotting to murder an innocent civilian. Thus, it is nothing extroardinarily damaging in the public eye for a President to be involved in ordering paralegal activities. The state does have a monopoly on violence after...
...vote was the exception to the rule. Kerry had supported the use of force in Grenada in 1983, Panama in 1989, Somalia in 1992, Kosovo in 1999 and Afghanistan in 2001. He supports adding 40,000 troops to the overextended armed services. As Kerry put it in his Sept. 2 announcement speech in South Carolina, "We may well have to use force to fight terrorism. I will not hesitate to do so. But if I am President, the United States will never go to war because we want to. We will only go to war because we have...
...captain in 1980, Boykin vainly tried to help rescue the 53 U.S. hostages held by Iran, a secret mission that ended in flames at Desert One, killing eight U.S. servicemen. Three years later, as a major, he helped invade Grenada. In 1992, as a colonel, he led the manhunt in Colombia for drug lord Pablo Escobar. The next year he advised Attorney General Janet Reno on what kind of gas to use to end the Federal Government's standoff with a religious group in Waco, Texas. But the experience that perhaps marked him most came six months later, in October...
...Blair is being advised by some veteran British politicians to put his foot down on the Guantanamo Brits, precisely because he's widely perceived in Britain to be too servile the Bush administration - even Margaret Thatcher challenged her close friend and ally Ronald Reagan on his 1983 invasion of Grenada - but that may be dangerous, because pressing the case and failing to bring the two men home would simply underline Blair's subordinate status...