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...volume of naval history that remains today the definitive work in its field. And yet he could not shake his disdain for an institution that despite its resources had produced only one of the three men most prominent in American colonialism—Secretary of War (later State) Elihu Root, Philippines Governor (later President) William Howard Taft and Governor of Cuba Gen. Leonard Wood...
...focuses, they nurture the part of my brain that inevitably wanders to the pantry. but they are productive and do not involve eating. I know this is sort of an alarming thing to say; however much olive oil I use in place of butter to create healthy meals, the root of my love of cooking is probably not so healthy itself...
...manhunt. The Pentagon may still establish forward bases in Afghanistan to stage special-ops search-and-destroy missions alongside the Pashtun in the south and to secure humanitarian supply lines in the north. But American military planners remained leery of sending ground troops into the caves to root out the enemy in person. They would prefer to dispatch their far more experienced Afghan proxies to the enemy lairs if entry becomes necessary. Caves are strewn with buried mines and trip-wire grenades set to kill intruders...
...criticism fails on at least two counts. One, it does not recognize that we, as liberators, have an interest in what follows the Taliban in Afghanistan. We cannot simply drop our bombs and depart with our best wishes, lest we find ourselves returning some years down the road to root out another terrorist regime...
...about Cambodia that renders it so irresistible to writers and photographers? Are we beguiled by the gentleness of the people? Or by the enigma of why a country once famed for its lotus-eaters should be so bedeviled by war and suffering, much of it self-inflicted? Whatever the root of Neveu's obsession, we all benefit from his pictures, which are powerfully displayed in Cambodia: The Years of Turmoil (Asia Horizons; 160 pages...