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Religious and anti-war groups nationwide have rallied around the reservists. But in North Carolina, which provided more soldiers to the Gulf War than any other state, their plight has gone all but unnoticed in the jubilation surrounding the return of troops...
They should talk to the thousands of Ethiopians who would have perished from famine if TV news crews hadn't broadcast their plight to viewers around the world...
...Their plight inspires both pity and fear. Pity that they are the innocent victims of society's ills. Pity that the odds will be stacked against them at , home, on the playground and in school. Fear that they will grow into an unmanageable multitude of disturbed and disruptive youth. Fear that they will be a lost generation...
...opposite error is to leave jobs half finished in the name of a foolishly consistent prudence. This is the impracticality of practical men, and this is clearly what controlled the Bush Administration's first response to the plight of the Kurds. Not wanting to become bogged down in Iraq's internal affairs, we left the Kurdish rebellion to its fate. We should have seen that a six-week air war was already a massive intervention in Iraq's affairs. If Saddam was dangerous enough to be bombed out of Kuwait, then his internal enemies, the Kurds and the Shi'ites...
Kohl has been criticized for timid handling of Germany's part in the gulf war and apparent callousness about the plight of eastern Germans, 21% of whom are effectively unemployed. But it was his turnabout on taxes that sank his party's fortunes in western Germany, where three-quarters of the voters live. He promised last year that unification could be financed without new taxes, but the immense and growing costs have instead forced him to raise taxes. As of July 1, the average German will pay 7.5% more...