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Your report on the full-scale assault to take back Fallujah from the insurgents [Nov. 22] reminds me of the Vietnam-era axiom: "We had to destroy the village in order to save it." Although reconstruction is supposed to begin as soon as we pacify the Fallujah cauldron, attempts at...
French cartoonist David B. visualizes the invisible. In Epileptic, a moving account of his brother's debilitating illness, he delivers compelling cartoon metaphors for elusive concepts like longing. The result, due out in early January, is a graphic novel that's a worthy successor to Art Spiegelman's Maus.Set in...
The Pixies never made sense. A bald, fat genius, a transplant from the Philippines, a chain-smoking matron and a stage magician have no right to write songs about Puerto Rico, the Old Testament and UFOs that are actually good, much less classics. They were far too improbable to exist...
Besides serving as the U.S. Ambassador to Yemen from 1997 to 2001, Bodine has served various posts related to the Middle East, inlcuding acting as the Deputy Principal Officer in Baghdad from 1980 to 1983 and as the Deputy Chief of Mission in Kuwait during the first Gulf War. More...
Street Fight in Iraq Your report on the full-scale assault to take back Fallujah from the insurgents [Nov. 22] reminds me of the Vietnam-era axiom: "We had to destroy the village in order to save it." Although reconstruction is supposed to begin as soon as we pacify the...