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...first things Khomeini did after the revolution, according to Salah Zawawi, the Palestinian ambassador to Iran for the past 27 years, was to raise the slogan "Today Iran, tomorrow Palestine!" Zawawi recounts how Khomeini declared Israel an unlawful country and named the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan "Jerusalem Day" so Muslims could remember the occupation of the holy city and pray for its liberation. "He was dealing with the question of Palestine from a religious perspective," says Zawawi. "In the mind of Imam Khomeini, there is no compromise. You believe, or you don't believe." Zawawi says...
...firm believer in the war in Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Robert Gates' grim assessment last month of what lies in store for the U.S. might have made you shudder. "If we set ourselves the objective of creating some sort of Central Asian Valhalla over there, we will lose, because nobody in the world has that kind of time, patience and money, to be honest," he said...
...fighter jet. He has to decide by March 1 whether to add more F-22 Raptor fighters to the 183 purchased by the Bush Administration. For years, the Air Force has wanted to double the fleet, while Gates has made clear that he thinks 183 is sufficient. A month ago, some Air Force officials were saying privately that maybe 60 more F-22s would suffice. The Pentagon's acquisition boss, John Young, recently detailed why more F-22s might be a poor investment. The F-22s that exist are ready to fly only 62% of the time and haven...
...these low prices." Shutting down the F-22 line means "the loss of 95,000 jobs," warned Georgia Senator Saxby Chambliss, as did many others in his state. "If we truly want to stimulate the economy, there's no better place to do it than in defense spending." Last month nearly half the Congress sent letters to Barack Obama urging him to keep the F-22 line humming...
...career anymore.' TOM SUARTO, a retired autoworker whose son will lose his factory job next month. Since 1912, four generations of Suarto's family have worked for General Motors...