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...military commanders, who have long argued that troop reductions must depend on conditions on the ground, warn against any abrupt cutbacks. "A precipitous pullout would be destabilizing," says Army Lieut. General John Vines, the top ground commander in Iraq. And the Pentagon expects a spike in violence in the run-up to the Dec. 15 election for a new parliament. But the debate over a withdrawal, spurred in part by Democratic Representative John Murtha's call two weeks ago for an accelerated departure, is now out in the open. Here are some of the key questions going forward...
Yamashita's script is much more relentlessly cruel. In essence, the Japanese officers compelled the bravery (and suicide) of their troops at gunpoint. Only the Japanese commander, Lieut. General Tadamichi Kuribayashi (a mysterious historical figure who fascinates Eastwood), and a fictional conscript, Saigo, whose fate Yamashita intertwines with his commanding officer's, demonstrate anything like humanity as a Westerner might understand it. The lieutenant general, educated in part in the U.S., is respectful of its national spirit (and industrial might) and believes that a live soldier, capable of carrying on the fight, is infinitely more valuable than a dead...
...commanders say rebuilding places like Fallujah will happen only if the insurgency is contained. So don't expect U.S. troops to leave anytime soon. At a recent meeting, city council members pleaded with Lieut. Colonel Bill Mullen to let Fallujah police itself. But Mullen refused and demanded that council members stop turning a blind eye to insurgent activities. "If the security situation does not improve," Mullen said, "guess what? We're not going anywhere...
...team of terrific managers, people with credibility from Day One." Faced with the Iran-contra scandal, Reagan brought in Howard Baker and then Ken Duberstein as chiefs of staff, Frank Carlucci and then Colin Powell as National Security Advisers (Powell told Reagan, in no uncertain terms, that Lieut. Colonel Oliver North, who was running an illegal war from the White House basement, had to go). President Bush confronts nothing so threatening to his Administration as Iran-contra. But it's probably time to renovate the West Wing staff under new leadership. And there aren't three people in the Pentagon...
SACKED. PHILIPPINE MARINE BRIGADIER GENERAL FRANCISCO GUDANI, and LIEUT. COLONEL ALEXANDER BALUTAN, by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, for flouting a presidential order prohibiting military men and government employees from appearing before a Senate committee investigating allegations of electoral fraud in 2004's controversial presidential election; in Manila. Arroyo has been under fire since audio tapes, apparently of her speaking to an election commissioner during the vote counting, were released in June, but an impeachment attempt died in the House of Representatives last month. Gudani told the Senate panel last week he was removed from his post in Mindanao for attempting...