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...Bucket List knows what you'd want if you found out you were going to die soon: A NEW CAR! The prognosis may be alarming in this sentimental septuagenarian comedy, but at least the price is right...
American commanders are open about the CLCs' motivations; patriotism is not high on the list. Gen. Mark Hertling, who commands American forces in northern Iraq, said at a press conference last week that most volunteers were in it for the paycheck they received via the U.S. military. "They're doing that to get a job, primarily," he said. A CLC fighter gets paid roughly $300 a month, slightly less than his counterpart in the Iraqi police force. Nevertheless, of the 15,000 volunteers in his area, Hertling said, only about 20% have expressed an interest in joining the government...
...South America defense analyst for Jane's. "One is the Amazon region where drug traffickers are operating with impunity. Secondly, we are also seeing an increased presence of Colombian guerrillas and that requires mobility and that is whey we see helicopters and military airlift high on the priority list. Then there is the new oil reserves and part of the reason for the procurement of a nuclear submarine is because they said they need to protect those resources...
...Venezuela," says Joyce, "comes fairly low down the list." But Chavez does give a face to the race and an impetus for nationalistic Brazilian politicians to vote for an increase in the military budget. Indeed, part of the proposed new funds will go toward resuscitating the country's dormant arms industry. "We had 1% [share] of the world's arms market in the 1970s and 1980s," says Reserve Colonel Geraldo Lesbat Cavagnari, coordinator of the Strategic Studies Group at Unicamp university. "We need to recuperate that industry and invest in it. That means producing for the Brazilian armed forces...
...made the wrong choices and your countrymen are dying as a result. Even if the motive of a movie is to teach a moral lesson, it's not easy to stick to the facts and dramatize at the same time. It is not a simple issue of recruiting A-list actors and using emotional appeal. The great Iraq-war movie won't be appearing for quite some time, because for now it's just too close to reality. Viewers want to forget momentarily about bad things that are going on around them. Besides, they only have to switch...