Word: pacificism
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Generals come in all varieties--loud and brash, brainy and bookish, and occasionally a little worrisome. Tommy Ray Franks is none of those: he is quick, funny, very private, ferociously hardworking and, everyone says, a rare leader of soldiers, particularly enlisted troops. He is also, at least in public, the...
In some ways, he was al-Qaeda's Agent 007: suave, well educated, a trilingual globe-trotter who mixed easily in other cultures, who engaged women and intrigue with savoir faire and deadly expertise. Except that Khalid Shaikh Mohammed isn't fiction. He's all too real. Consider his resume...
He first appeared on U.S. intelligence-agency screens after the first World Trade Center attack in 1993. Hours before a truck bomb in a basement parking lot went off, Yousef flew to Pakistan, then made his way to Manila, where he hooked up with Mohammed. The bombing is not thought...
The turning point of the 20th century arrived in a clear, sunny sky over Hiroshima on the morning of Aug. 6, 1945, in the form of a mushroom cloud that could be seen 250 miles away. President Truman's order to drop the atom bomb brought a decisive end to...
Many Americans admired the Brits' courage, but the U.S. stayed on the bench for another year and a half. Only after Japan surprised the U.S. fleet at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, killing 2,433 Americans, did the country put aside its isolationism. More defeats followed at first, but...