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...complement the Marine facility at Djibouti and expand U.S. capacity for rapid reaction to crises - may tip the Administration in favor of committing some resources to a Liberia mission. Britain did its bit by sending troops to its former colony in Sierra Leone and staying there until the rebellion was crushed; France did the same for its former colony in Ivory Coast; and now there's pressure on the U.S. to tackle the problem in Liberia, a state that is something of an American creation...
...Indeed, Battle Royale unfolded like a video game with a perverse premise: a rising tide of teenage rebellion prompts the government to pass a law stipulating that every year an unlucky junior-high-school class be sent to a remote island. There, students are issued weapons from a sadistic arsenal?crossbows, scythes and the like?and forced to stalk and kill their classmates. Compliance is assured by fitting each combatant with an explosive radio collar that can be detonated at the discretion of malicious adults refereeing the game. Sure, it's a bizarre educational policy (after all, a mind...
...While Iraq is a very different situation from the one that confronted the U.S. military in Vietnam - the enemy has no regional or international backers to support and sustain its insurgency; the terrain and technological capability of the U.S. precludes any concentration of forces; as long as the rebellion remains confined to Sunnis its maximum political support base is no bigger than 15 percent of the population - it's the idea of U.S. troops confronting an enemy indistinguishable from an often hostile civilian population that gets alarm bells ringing. A report in London's Evening Standard last week contained disturbing...
...Saddam's now disbanded professional army. But that may be a sound investment, since if a quarter of a million trained soldiers have no stake in the post-Saddam order, there are plenty of renegade Baathists with wads of cash to buy their services in support of an armed rebellion...
...schizoid regime in Iran--technically led by President Mohammed Khatami, whose attempts at reform have been stymied by supreme religious leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei--may be able to quell this rebellion, as it did a similar movement in 1999, aided by progovernment civilian militias. "Our leader has ordered us to protect the revolution," said Assad, a corpulent militia member, as he attempted to stop cars heading to the protests Friday. Assad characterizes the students as "prostitutes and gays...