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Antoin Sevruguin and the Persian Image...
From patriots those who died in the American Revolution to soldiers who protected democratic interests in the Persian Gulf, Veteran's Day is a time to honor the deeds of heroes otherwise unsung. Already, Harvard students in the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) have participated in a 24-hour silent guard to honor POW and MIA soldiers. The same group will also take part in a Veteran's Day parade to be held in Boston on Saturday...
...continue to be placed in harms way, deserve better. Claims that the USS Cole incident was the result of an intelligence failure or logistical necessities are suspect. Gen. Anthony Zinni, former commander of U.S. forces in the Persian Gulf (also known as Central Command, or CENTCOM), assumed responsibility for moving refueling operations and testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee that the Yemeni port of Aden was the least vulnerable option--and thus essential to U.S. Persian Gulf operations. Nothing seems further from the truth...
...then easy to conclude that the United Nations doesn't do anything to establish world peace. Possibly, it then follows that the only authority in the world that can bring about stability--be it in the Taiwan Straits, the Holy Land or the Persian Gulf--is the United States. Because the United States is the only global actor with any agency, the important question becomes not what the world thinks, but what America believes. No one need bother with the United Nations as a result. Peace processes should be spearheaded by the United States, because the last hopes for peace...
...women aboard the U.S.S. Cole had been at sea for two uneventful months when their vessel arrived in the Yemen harbor of Aden last Thursday. Unrest in the region and the Cole's upcoming six-month mission with the Navy's Fifth Fleet in the Persian Gulf, where it would enforce the international oil embargo against Iraq, had upgraded the ship's Threatcon to "bravo," the Navy's second-highest state of alert. So as the Cole steamed into Aden harbor just before noon, maneuvering close to an offshore mooring station where it would refuel, crew members were on deck...