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...unduly at risk." Navy Lieut. Commander "Chris," who piloted an F-18 from the U.S.S. Enterprise on a six-hour mission to Kandahar, said, "The amount of resistance we've seen in this theater is significantly less than you would see in Iraq, significantly less than we saw in Kosovo...
...over Port au Prince before the invasion. But State Department officials, horrified at the thought of Haitian children beaned by the balls, objected. The balls were passed out to the kids after the Americans landed. A Defense Science Board study found that during NATO's 1999 air war over Kosovo, Commando Solo broadcasts were largely ineffective. No one knows how effective tactical psyops will now be in a country as isolated and backward as Afghanistan has become. Afghans should be starved for information. The Taliban regime is unpopular among large segments of the population. But the Taliban...
...have soared past all previous online fund-raising campaigns. The American Red Cross reported $60 million in online gifts as of last week. Before this year, the most any charity had raised online was the $2.7 million the Red Cross garnered in 1999 for the refugee relief effort in Kosovo. Type in helping.org...
...recent terrorist attacks in New York and Washington. The exhibit constitutes a representative selection of the works of Paris-based photographer Sophie Ristelhueber. The photographs, in turn, exhibit striking images of the destruction and scarring caused by various wars of recent history, including the Gulf War, the conflict in Kosovo, and the civil war in Lebanon...
...this assertion is by no means only based on Ristelhueber's art; Rather, she makes her view of the world patently clear by coupling a passage from Thucydides with a series of photographs from the war in Kosovo. The passage Ristelhueber quotes represents Thucydides' idea that conflict is inevitable and that people will by nature always abuse other people for their own gain to whatever extent they can. Her use of this passage is telling evidence of the general theme in Ristelhueber's work of a resigned, almost defeatist approach to the horrible things we humans do to each other...