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...house-to-house searches. If Iraq has taught us anything in the past three years--and Lebanon in the past three weeks--it is that conventional military tactics don't work in an asymmetrical conflict. Sheer numbers and firepower count for very little. Despite an ongoing 50,000-man, joint U.S.-Iraqi military operation dubbed Operation Forward Together to flush Baghdad clean of nationalist insurgents, jihadist terrorists and sectarian militias, the capital is as dangerous as ever. If anything, the Shi'ite militias are getting more brazen; a few days after my return, they entered the largely Sunni neighborhood...
What makes the militias especially dangerous is the impunity with which they act. Since many policemen and soldiers are their former comrades-in-arms, militiamen are often allowed to roam unchecked. They are routinely accused of conducting "joint operations"--a euphemism for murderous rampages that police watch or even join. Sometimes police are accused of moonlighting as militiamen, using official vehicles and weapons. A three-car convoy belonging to Sunni M.P. Tayseer al-Mashhadani was stopped last month by 30 gunmen in a Shi'ite suburb. Al-Mashhadani and seven bodyguards were bundled into unmarked cars and driven away...
...mere hazy fantasies of cheap, hedonistic living. You just won’t find that kind of free ticket here; and in the meanwhile, you’ll be annoying the heck out of the rest of us.Grace Tiao ’08, a Crimson editorial editor, is a joint English and American literature and language and history and science concentrator in Currier House. She wrote this piece while shivering madly in the Argentine winter, on the balcony of her apartment in a bikini...
Castro: I was among those who proposed joint ventures even before the collapse of the Soviet Union because we had resources that we could not make use of. We have factories that need raw materials, such as fuel, or some more updated technologies so we may accept a joint venture. The principle we base our activities on is that to develop the country needs capital, technology and markets. All these investments and joint ventures are fundamentally aimed at export production...
...There are jobs, but not in Havana. One of the things we are doing is to attract some people from the cities to the countryside. We have given land parcels to those who want to till the land. We are also trying to start up factories by means of joint ventures. We are boosting tourism as much as we can as a source of employment. We are expanding the number of free-lance workers. Free-lance working, an embryonic form of what you call private enterprise, is one of the ways by which we must find jobs for all those...