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...dancing in the streets of Baghdad like those liberated in Kabul. Beyond obvious allies such as Britain and Kuwait, other nations will join with us as Bush's resolve grows clear. In 1990 the much vaunted "international coalition" developed only after Bush Sr. dispatched 540,000 troops to the Persian Gulf. We enlisted others precisely because we were willing to "go it alone." Besides, when did "standing alone" become the big bugaboo? Our Founding Fathers proudly stood alone in 1776. In 1940 Churchill proclaimed that Britain was fighting "by ourselves alone; but we are not fighting for ourselves alone." Similarly...
...Marine live-fire urban-warfare training exercise in the Persian Gulf turned tragically real Tuesday when two local men firing AK-47 rifles jumped out of a pickup truck. The Marines killed their attackers, but not before losing one of their own and having a second man wounded - the first casualties, some will say, of the coming war for Iraq. Of course there is no war, right now, and the Pentagon insists that the training exercise in Kuwait had been planned months ago and had nothing to do with the current standoff. Then again, that planned exercise had been...
...Maryland. The daughter of a B-52 pilot, she rose steadily through the ranks during a 22-year naval career that culminated with her assuming command of the frigate U.S.S. Jarrett in 1998. She took the vessel and its 262-member crew on a six-month mission to the Persian Gulf in 2000 to hunt for ships smuggling Iraqi oil, leaving her husband Gregory Brandon, an ex--Navy officer, at home in San Diego with the couple's two children, who were adopted from Russia. Though long reluctant to talk of her trailblazing role, she opened up for TIME...
Stewart worked as a business writer and editor since 1989, when he joined Fortune as an associate editor. Stewart penned articles on a wide variety of topics, including the management of churches, gay and lesbian executives, emerging electronic marketplaces, the state of American competitiveness, the Persian Gulf war and the war on terrorism...
...enthusiastic following these days, a certain tension is often missing. Barks' versions, Lewis claims, "teleport the poems of Rumi out of their cultural and Islamic context into the inspirational discourse of non-parochial spirituality." Cut free from the ground of orthodox Islamic belief from which they grew, the Persian poet's lyrical reports from the outer fringes of mystical experience risk becoming mere souvenirs of a far-off time and place?harmless ecstatic bonbons that soothe and mirror contemporary Western tastes and sensibilities rather than potentially enlarging or changing them...