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WHAT EVIDENCE WOULD JUSTIFY WAR? It's up to the inspectors to decide. We gave them our confidence. They were given a mission, and we trust them. If we have to give them greater means, we'll do so. It's up to them to come before the Security Council and say, "We won. It's over. There are no more weapons of mass destruction," or "It's impossible for us to fulfill our mission. We're coming up against Iraqi ill will and impediments." At that point, the Security Council would have to discuss this report and decide what...
...wife's happy." And he's looking ahead. At the job fair, he also came across DeVry University, which had a booth there to entice vets to return to school. Hughes is signing up for online courses to learn to design video games. He's ready for his next mission...
...Undergraduate Council (UC) would do well to remember its name. Though this page sometimes takes issue with its policies, we believe that the UC’s mission is an important one. But recently, the UC has been overreaching its mandate to improve the undergraduate experience at Harvard College and reverting to a nasty old habit that rendered it largely superfluous during large swaths of the last decade: dabbling in political issues, on which its voice is irrelevant and unrepresentative.The most recent alarming case of the UC’s meddling was its legislation on the security guard labor dispute...
...Extended tours certainly help Army units adapt to a mission that has shifted inexorably from war-fighting to counterinsurgency and nation-building. More time on the ground means that soldiers have a better grasp of the local complexities and personalities that can determine the outcome of their mission. "With a year deployment you have six months of effective time: three months getting up to speed and three months winding down," says Major Thom Sutton, second in command at Naray. But how much can be asked of troops, many of whom have already served three tours? Even with visible successes, burnout...
...critique of "liberation theology," the Latin American movement that Ratzinger and John Paul II condemned in the 1980s for mixing Church teachings with Marxism. Speaking to reporters on his plane, Benedict reiterated his warning against "mistaken mixing of Church and politics, of faith and politics," insisting the Church's mission was the "education of personal and social virtues," not direct intervention in the political sphere. And while he spoke positively of the push for sainthood for progressive Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero, who was killed in 1980 while celebrating Mass, Benedict complained that Romero's cause had been hijacked by supporters...