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When a government recklessly expends the lives of its young for crass motives of profit and power—always claiming that its motives are pure and moral (“Operation Just Cause” was the invasion of Panama and “Operation Iraqi Freedom” in the present instance)—it is violating its promise to the country. It is the country that is primary—the people, the ideals of the sanctity of human life and the promotion of liberty. War is almost always (one might find rare instances of true...
Spring Break raged on in Panama City Beach without me. I am not ashamed to admit that I was on the couch keeping an eye on the war. In the wee hours of the morning, when the networks stop bouncing from one correspondent to the next, the coverage nestles in with one little slice of the war—a single camera, even—and lets you watch a live stream, uncut and unproduced...
...much lower. Although precise data are hard to come by, Kenneth Steinweg, a U.S. colonel who studied U.S. Army War College records, estimated in 1995 that comparable rates, based on the best-documented battles, were 16% in World War II, 11% to 14% in Vietnam and 13% in Panama...
Johnson, who was born in Panama, understood all too well what the Spanish-language network was saying. One of the POWs was an African-American female, 30 years old, named Shana--Shoshana's nickname. Not quite ready to believe the worst, he called Telemundo, which confirmed that his daughter had been spotted on Iraqi TV. It would be six long hours, however, before officials at Fort Bliss called Johnson and his wife Eunice to confirm what the couple had already surmised from surfing TV channels and the Internet. Their gentle daughter--a single mom who, when she was a child...
Romero, who is originally from Panama, attended the conference as a delegate in 1995 and 1998. She said she was inspired by listening to the other student delegates speak, and by the friendships she made there and still maintains...