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Soldiers initially told not to respond to looters unless their own safety was threatened--the British high command "doesn't want us to make ourselves unpopular here," said a British soldier--were eventually given freer rein. By Friday the BBC was reporting that British soldiers shot and killed five bank robbers in Basra. The Pentagon imposed a nighttime curfew on Baghdad, and on Saturday, despite a fire fight downtown, the capital overall was much calmer. The looting had subsided, residents were returning to the city, and many shops and restaurants had reopened. In days to come, the U.S. hopes...
...Lebanon would enrage Damascus. To which the view in the Administration seems to be, Too bad. Even some officials who are privately dismissive of the neoconservative agenda seem prepared to yank the chain of Syrian President Bashar Assad, whom they consider a disappointing, feeble reformer who has failed to rein in his own security forces. U.S. intelligence believes Syria allowed men and materiel--including night-vision goggles--to cross its border and join Saddam's forces during the war. When asked last week what he would do if Saddam's weapons of mass destruction were spirited to Syria, Defense Secretary...
...rules for those parties that ask for them. This is tantamount to saying that no one can steal—except thieves and pickpockets. Non-discrimination policies are not meant to address organizations which do not discriminate and have no reason to do so; they are necessary precisely to rein in organizations like HRCF—stubborn organizations which insist on discriminating in the face of clear prohibitions against such behavior. By strongly prohibiting already non-discriminatory groups from discriminating and yet opening up a loophole for HRCF, the CCL has made a mockery of the very idea...
Savings aside, the new purchasing plans come as part of an effort by Summers to rein in the highly autonomous schools and get them to work together where it’s to their benefit...
...mops up one war in Afghanistan and prepares to launch a second in Iraq, it is increasingly clear that if Franks is not Rumsfeld's better half, he is surely his other half, his alter ego, the soldier's soldier who can rein in the supercivilian and gently remind him that battles are won not with dash but usually with numbers. If Afghanistan had been fought Rumsfeld's way, we might still have commandos mounting up on horseback to hunt down the Taliban. If the war had been fought Franks' way, we might have nabbed Osama bin Laden a long...