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...Armed Services Committee. But one Marine general who knows the region says it actually makes some sense to put a naval officer in charge. If the U.S. begins redeploying forces outside of Iraq as a part of a drawdown it will increasingly have to use naval vessels, not large land bases, for stationing them...
...more an unwieldy chimera manufactured to the specifications of Disneyland’s “It’s a Small World” attraction. (Which, incidentally, the theme park’s planners have tellingly relegated to an area of the park called “Fantasy Land...
...delivery boy from Montana who thought Teddy Roosevelt was pretty neat—my own precious contribution, I suppose, to this carnival of diversity—a Harvard College education leaves you feeling like an absurd rendering of Captain Richard Francis Burton, an out-of-place explorer in a land full of marvelous and bizarre distractions...
...communist secret police, was ordered to be silent by Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz, the former personal secretary of Pope John Paul II. The late pontiff, while a strident anti-communist, was not unsympathetic to Polish priests who had cooperated with communists authorities, who then held absolute sway over his native land...
...final insult for Sharon: American Evangelist Pat Robertson claims (presumably through a reliable source) that Sharon was, in fact, struck down by God as punishment for the Israeli leader's withdrawal of Jewish settlers from Gaza, thereby "dividing" the Holy Land. If anything, according to a new biography written by Uri Dan - an unabashed fan and friend of the stricken Israeli leader - he was continuing his life's work of trying to consolidate Israel's grip on as much of the Holy Land as possible, and he had no intention of giving up West Bank settlements. Dan writes that Sharon...