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...when draft-age sons of privilege (including the current Commander in Chief) sought out spots in the reserves and the National Guard as an alternative to facing combat. These days, 220,000 Guard members and reservists are stationed around the globe in peacekeeping operations, the battle against terrorism, homeland security and now the war in Iraq. Last month an Illinois Guardsman died in an ambush in Afghanistan; so far, at least eight members of the reserves and the National Guard have died in Operation Iraqi Freedom. And now that the fighting is over, the work is just beginning for reservists...
...call-ups have also taken their toll on the communities of Guard members and reservists. A disproportionate number are police officers or fire fighters - the very people whom cities are counting on for homeland security and as first responders. "We have hollowed out our homeland-security force and deployed them around the country and around the world," says California Congresswoman Ellen Tauscher. The call-ups after 9/11 swept up 15% of the Fargo, N.D., police force. Even small losses can have a big impact on cities and states that are staggering under their worst fiscal crises in generations. With three...
...month before the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz was still certain that U.S. troops in Iraq would not stir up religious passions as they had in Saudi Arabia, Osama bin Laden's homeland, during Gulf War I. "The Iraqi population is completely different," Wolfowitz told National Public Radio on February 19. "The Iraqis are among the most educated people in the Arab world. They are by and large quite secular. They are overwhelmingly Shiite, which is different from the Wahabbis of the Peninsula. They don't bring the sensitivity of having the holy cities...
...read “with us” on one side and “against us” on the other. A young woman nicknamed “Media Frenzy” chatted with the audience in her slashed newsprint wig and dress, and “Miss Homeland USA” strutted around in camouflage hot pants, explaining that she was the USO girl of the future—when America would be in the seventh year of its “holy crusade” against the rest of the world...
While the event has closed its run after addressing a variety of political issues with strong artistic sensibilities and intellectual wit, there is still one last chance to participate in its homeland security dialogue, in a gallery talk on Monday night at 6 p.m. If that discussion is anywhere near as provocative as the exhibit itself was, this is a forum not to be missed...