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Junger touches on everything from the war in Kosovo to the deadly diamond trade in Sierra Leone, the dispute between Greece and Turkey over the island of Cyprus to the moving tale of the last living whale harpoonist, Athneal Ollivierre, from the Caribbean island of Bequia. In doing so, we learn little about the greater geopolitical issues involved. Instead we see the men and women who are left behind when war ends and those who view forest fires less as an uncontrolled fire and more as a chance for employment and overtime...
...live their lives, whether it be preserving a centuries-old whaling custom or trying to live amid war and ethnic strife. Massoud fought so that he could live in his homeland as he wished without brutal oppression (the same can be said of the subjects of his essays on Kosovo and Cyprus), just as the Taliban soldiers who faced him across the miles of battlefield are mostly not Islamic fanatics but young conscripts who want only to go home alive...
...there's a lot less to hit in Afghanistan than there was in Serbia. And that may be why the U.S. is using a lot fewer planes than they did in the Kosovo conflict. What we are seeing so far, is a seemingly judicious use of force. If they were flying in hundreds of planes every night that would be more for PR than military effectiveness...
...Kosovo, the air war went on for 70 days. But presumably here there are far more limits on what the U.S. can do from 15,000 feet, because the Taliban have far less military and economic infrastructure...
...surgery for a Salvadoran boy with a deformed leg in exchange for providing a surgeon with a supply of crutches and leg braces. A range of Rotary Clubs and other service groups assist the Samaritan with logistics and funding so that he can mount missions as far afield as Kosovo, Kenya and Argentina. Through Airline Ambassadors, an aid group of airline employees, Gray grabs air-cargo space for his bulky shipments...