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...armed forces was first enacted in 1993 and has been a lighting rod of controversy at Harvard over the past decade. In 2004, Harvard Law School banned military recruiters from using the school’s career services office, but the school decided to reverse course when the Pentagon threatened to cut off more than $400 million in federal funds to the University in 2005. Last March, the Supreme Court upheld the legality of the Solomon Amendment—a law which permits the secretary of defense to cut off funding to schools that do not allow recruiters on campus?...
Doug Feith, the Pentagon's former No. 3 civilian official whom many Democrats blame for pushing the U.S. to invade Iraq with sloppy intelligence ginned up by his office, is fighting back. He's just launched his own website at www.dougfeith.com
...workmanlike site, featuring the same photograph of the former undersecretary of defense for policy that the Pentagon used in his official bio before he left in 2005. "The 'Bush lied, people died' argument is not true," he asserts in bold-faced type at the top of his home page. He notes the Feb. 7 release of a Pentagon inspector general's report that has "spawned a lot of inaccurate commentary by politicians and misreporting by journalists...
...While the Pentagon insists it is taking sufficient steps to nurture the mental health of its soldiers and families, the nation's top military officer was telling military families in Alaska that in some ways their job is tougher than the one being done by their loved ones actually fighting. "When we go overseas into combat, we know when we're in trouble," Marine General Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told military spouses at Elmendorf Air Force Base on Saturday. "We're surrounded by Marines and soldiers, which isn't a bad place...
...When Pace opened the floor to questions, several wives focused on the need for counseling for their mates before and after they came home from combat, according to a summary of his talk provided by the Pentagon. "Obviously, we're more aware of post-traumatic stress disorder, and we're doing the best that we can," one woman said. "But I don't think we're doing enough. We're not only failing our soldiers, but we're failing our families because we don't really know what we're looking for." Often, soldiers don't want to deal with...