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...heavy-duty offensive launched last week can quickly backfire. "We risk looking really stupid if we say that we're going to get really tough but we can't, and if those measures only push those Iraqis sitting on the fence over to the other side," says former Marine Lieut. Colonel Dale Davis, who served in the Middle East and North Africa. "You don't win hearts and minds by blowing up somebody's house...
Much attention has been focused on Lieut. General William Boykin's preaching anti-Islamic sermons to evangelical Christian gatherings [Nov. 3]. As a top Army officer in the war on terrorism, Boykin is not only contradicting President Bush's position that this is not a war against Islam, he is also fanning the flames of Muslim hatred of the U.S. Americans should be concerned about how Boykin's remarks suggest that U.S. foreign policy is captive to right-wing Christian fundamentalists. WILLIAM A. MCCARTNEY Delaware, Ohio...
...Equality of Belief Michael Kinsley, in his essay "The Religious Superiority Complex" [Nov. 3], wrote about Lieut. General William Boykin's preaching that Christianity's God is superior to Islam's God. I have no patience with people who say their God is bigger than that of others. In fact, it's mere nonsense and maliciousness, especially in reference to Christians, Muslims and Jews, all of whom believe in one God. Religious fundamentalists of any faith who slander and sow hatred against those of a different creed are using religion as an excuse for pursuing their personal worldly interests...
...frequently jails citizens who call for reform or democracy?and it even has a problem with its Old Guard. "These guys are considered dangerous," says a Western diplomat in Hanoi, because "they're saying the government has become the kind of institution they fought against." In 1999, war hero Lieut. General Tran Do was expelled from the Party for airing his disenchantment, and several veterans quit the Party in protest. Tien, who left the Party a year before, issued a stream of public protests. Hoang Minh Chinh, 81, a war veteran who's been imprisoned several times...
...There are indications, however, that serious Army traditionalists have come to recognize there may be a need for a specialized peacekeeping force. "We're clearly moving in that direction," said retired Lieut. General Dan Christman, a former superintendent of West Point. "There's a desire to serve in the generation now maturing-and they might well be attracted to the model that you describe. But it would have to be done within the culture and traditions of the military...