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When an Afghan commander refused to let his men join in a rescue mission, you quoted a U.S. sergeant who said, "Look at these Afghans. Why the hell should we be fighting their war?" Well, after 9/11, the war against the merciless Taliban regime suddenly became our war as well. I completely understand what men say in the heat of battle because I spent a year in combat myself. But slowly American troops will weed out the enemy, and as its desperation grows, we will continue to stride ahead with confidence and assurance, knowing we will punish those who dared...
...decipher the typical Cognac label, join the club. It will help to know, however, that VS is the youngest category, which most connoisseurs skip (or relegate to the punch bowl). V.S.O.P., or Réserve, Cognacs contain spirits at least 41/2 years old. While this can be a pleasant category, for gifting you will want to upgrade to Napoléon, Impérial, Hors d'âge, Vieille Réserve, Vernerable or X.O. These are all terms used for older Cognacs in which the youngest spirits are at least 61/2 years...
...doorman in Manhattan at a building on East 75th Street, just off Madison Avenue, and he rarely missed a day of work. In the summer, Fitzgerald worked as a doorman too, a few blocks south of his father. But from a young age, Fitzgerald was on track to join the crowds of Upper East Siders swishing past him. He attended Regis High School, a scholarship-only Jesuit academy for bright Catholic boys, where he was a star on the debate team. Then he moved to Massachusetts to study math and economics at Amherst, followed by law school at Harvard...
...humorless social misfit. It's true that he lacks certain domestic skills; for years, he famously piled reams of papers on the nonworking stove in his New York apartment. But he was also the one called on to roast departing colleagues and could always be counted on to join raucous beer drinking after a game of rugby or baseball...
...When an Afghan commander refused to let his men join in a rescue mission, you quoted a U.S. sergeant who said, "Look at these Afghans. Why the hell should we be fighting their war?" Well, after 9/11, the war against the merciless Taliban regime suddenly became our war as well. I completely understand what men say in the heat of battle because I spent a year in combat myself. But slowly American troops will weed out the enemy, and as its desperation grows, we will continue to stride ahead with confidence and assurance, knowing we will punish those who dared...