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Blistering, oppressive, withering, strength-sapping heat threatens to ruin your health, your day, your very sanity...
...country. In 1991 he finally joined in the overthrow of Siad Barre. Soon, though, he fell out with another leader of the congress, Ali Mahdi Mohammed: in a three-month period the two men shelled the once beautiful port city of Mogadishu into a crumbling ruin. His estranged wife and children left the country years ago. But one son returned -- as a U.S. Marine, wading ashore last December to liberate Somalia from the likes of his father...
Murray was told that attempting to transplant organs would waste his time and ruin his reputation. But he persevered, driven by his desire to serve. "Any chance of helping was worth working for," he says...
What to say of these liberal hawks? That they are marked by good faith but a terrible confusion. The confusion is between individual and national morality. In private conduct, altruism is the ideal. For a nation, it can mean ruin. In private conduct, self-interest is a suspect motive. Intervening in a fight for reasons of right is the stuff of western heroes. Intervening in a fight because you need the weaker party...
Second, morale: the military does all it can to keep unnecessary pressures and tensions from infiltrating the working and living environment. Sexual tension, let alone sexual activity, can poison this environment and ruin efficiency. In addition, any relations within units could threaten the chain of command, the backbone of the military...