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...dealt with Israel’s civilian political leaders, to whom he served as the top military adviser. “[The chief of staff] did not alert the political echelon to the serious shortcomings in the preparedness and the fitness of the armed forces for an extensive ground operation,” the report continues. “[His] responsibility is aggravated by the fact that he knew well that both the Prime Minister and the Minister of Defense lacked adequate knowledge and experience in these matters.” Neither Olmert nor Peretz have high-level leadership experience...
...Whenever an experiment crowded an engineering exercise, he'd jettison the experiment. When a prime-time broadcast was scheduled for shortly before the crew was to execute a tricky rendezvous, he scrubbed the TV show. "No TV until after the rendezvous," he pronounced. The ground objected but Schirra held firm. "TV will be delayed without any further discussion...
...being a part of foundations that promote it. They talk about regime change, but they also talk about oil and s---. They say it is regime change, but it is so complicated. Most of the time we aren't talking about supporting anybody unless there is something under the ground. And that is the sad truth about American ambition and many kinds of foreign policy. I don't have the answer. But don't we wish all the politicians were not connected in so many ways...
...this. In an interview with Blair for a TV film on Kosovo after the war, I remember his justifying his policy as simply "the right thing to do." But Blair was nobody's poodle. He and Bill Clinton had a near falling-out over the issue of ground troops. (Blair was prepared to contemplate a ground invasion of Kosovo, an idea that gave Clinton's team the vapors.) The success of Kosovo--and that of Britain's intervention to restore order in Sierra Leone a year later--emboldened Blair to think that in certain carefully delineated cases...
...obvious effect was a flight of pre-med students who would have potentially concentrated in the interdisciplinary biological anthropology to the HEB, which is little more than concentrating in pre-med. Overnight, BioAnthro quietly started to fade into that sacred elephant-burial ground where concentrations go to die. All the biological anthropology classes from the tutorials on up have been renumbered to HEB classes. Students who attempted to get a study card signed for biological anthropology were encouraged by the department to strongly consider HEB. As a result, biological anthropology has gone from a small but lively concentration...