Word: liberationism
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Over the past couple weeks, the media has struggled to broadcast every Pentagon press release, presidential pronouncement and embedded report on the war on Iraq. Almost all other issues have been left in the dust, such as the fate of the small Central Asian nation that was the site of...
What happened? "They're not going to do anything until Saddam's gone," said a disappointed senior Pentagon official. The Administration blames it all on the dying regime's brutality. With Saddam's paramilitaries at work in the south, even the Shi'ite population, which has never been granted much...
When the commanders of the U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry Division spoke to their men on the eve of war, they talked about being the fighting vanguard of a force that would be "liberating" Iraq. In the ranks, the soldiers ate it up. They envisioned scenes like the liberation of...
As war began last week, the American army in Kuwait received a remarkable order from the brass: stow your flags. The fearsome steel coil of tanks and artillery and Bradley fighting vehicles was told to enter enemy territory humbly, stripped of all banners, including the Stars and Stripes. This seemed...
Viewers have seen frequent dispatches from a Chinese reporter on location in Baghdad, in-studio analysis from retired People's Liberation Army officers and unfiltered interpretation of statements from U.S. generals and even from President George W. Bush. The motivation? Same as in the rest of TV world: ratings. Amid...