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...connections as well: "It is clear that he had contacts with individuals overseas who have espoused the use of violence like al-Awlaki. It is unclear whether or not it was anything more than just contacts, or if there was any type of operational engagement. It appears as though Major Hasan was inspired by some of this extremist rhetoric and propaganda. But what we are trying to do is make sure that we don't reach conclusions based on just a preliminary review of information that is available to date. That's why we have to go back in, make...
...Congress is bound to ask, How was it possible that even as his performance was poor, his personnel file was being reviewed and his communications with a radical cleric were being analyzed, Hasan was promoted from captain to major last May and dispatched in July to Fort Hood, the largest active Army base in the U.S.? One explanation is a desperate need for mental-health professionals. With its 50,000 soldiers and 150,000 family members and civilian personnel, Fort Hood has the highest toll of military suicides; posttraumatic-stress-disorder cases quadrupled from...
That's probably a smart choice, since a huge gap remains between the grass-roots activists who fervently want Palin to run for President and the party's elected officials, major fundraisers and strategists, many of whom think she is unready - or unfit - for the Oval Office. Many have noticed that Palin isn't acting like a candidate: after her clumsy exit from the governorship last summer, she declined to hire an experienced staff or manage her public profile deftly. All that, plus her tawdry public feud with ersatz son-in-law Levi Johnston, has most of the smart money...
...qualified success there. Finkel follows an Army battalion through the 2007 surge, as it attempts to secure a particularly nasty and neglected area of Baghdad. This was the first attempt to implement the Army's new counterinsurgency doctrine, and the troops have their doubts about the new tactics. Major Brent Cummings, the second-in-command, reads the doctrine and is perplexed by sentences like "Sometimes, the more force is used, the less effective it is." Cummings is an infantryman. He has been trained to "close with and destroy the enemy." This new form of warfare is not only weird...
Still, the reality of Pakistan today was never far away. Owing to security concerns, the event had to be postponed twice, and the venue changed. A major sponsor pulled out just days before for unspecified reasons, reducing the organizers to a "shoestring budget," and prospective foreign buyers were asked not to hazard the journey. But cancellation was never an option. "When was the last time something wrong was not happening in this country?" Deepak Perwani, the longtime enfant terrible of Pakistani fashion, says with gruff insouciance. "I mean, really. Life...