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...roads are staging areas so polluted with human waste and garbage that DiRosa must bring in commercial cleanup crews rather than rely on volunteers. One recent study estimated that each person crossing the desert leaves about eight pounds of garbage in his or her wake. Last year, the Border Patrol apprehended half a million illegal immigrants in Arizona; that means that, even if you only count the illegals who were apprehended and use a conservative estimate of five pounds of garbage for each, 2.5 million pounds of trash were left behind...
...DiRosa says "50 to 60% of my budget" is focused on border issues, not wilderness protection. He jokes that he has love-hate relationship with the Border Patrol - where illegals go, the Border Patrol follows, further impacting the wilderness. "It's a Catch-22 - we are joined at the hip," he said. "But if the Border Patrol was not out there it would be a war zone...
...This is the best I've seen come out of Washington," DiRosa said in an e-mail to TIME after reading the bill. "Sounds good in theory, but then there is the real world in which we land managers and Border Patrol must work...
...Marines here speak of "strategic corporals." In a fight where public perception is so vital the decisions made by young enlisted men don't just affect a particular patrol, or the opinions of Iraqis on a single street. The ripple effect can change the strategic picture of an entire region dramatically. "The complexity of what we're doing is so much greater," Gové said. The key choice is often when to "not act - which is the hardest thing for a Marine to do." One cultural lesson the Marines have learned is that what appears to American eyes...
...rest of Iraq, the hope in Qaim is that the American burden will lessen as Iraqi security forces take the lead. In Baghdad and other centers of sectarian violence, where the security forces are riddled with militiamen and where Shi'ites patrol hostile Sunni neighborhoods, that hope is more like a fantasy. But in al Qaim, foreign jihadists not too long ago antagonized local Sunni tribal leaders; and now the Americans have used that local history to win cooperation from the same maligned tribes, recruiting personnel for the Iraqi army and police. "It's in our best interest to train...