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...Washington, London and Qatar and in the coalition foxholes and camps scattered across the Iraqi desert; the grit of battle and the prospect of losses to come seemed to produce even more clear-eyed determination among the military leaders to finish the job. After a ceremony for fallen servicemen at his headquarters in Doha, Qatar, last Friday, Central Command Chief General Tommy Franks gathered his staff and tersely told them, "There will be more." Says a senior Administration official: "We're seeing a hardening and steeling of the troops." That's good. Because for the Americans on the road...
...hope for the crew of a British Challenger 2 tank fighting outside Basra in pitch darkness last week. The crew blasted another Challenger, killing two compatriots inside. Among other friendly-fire episodes of the war so far: a U.S. Patriot missile shot down a British Tornado aircraft, killing two servicemen. Another soldier died after two British armored vehicles came under fire, possibly from a U.S. A-10 aircraft. U.S. officials are investigating another incident near Nasiriyah, in which one Marine unit fired on another, wounding more than...
...country (apparently in the spirit of the movie, “Three Kings”). Even more despicable are letters that offer a chance to get hold of cash found in the collapse of the World Trade Center or to collect on phony life-insurance policies for servicemen killed in the Pentagon attack...
...coming weeks. Some critics will claim that focusing on black history during February marginalizes it. But Black History Month does this no more than a holiday such as Veterans’ Day makes us forget during the rest of the year the great contribution that servicemen have made to our country. To the contrary, Black History Month is when all of us pay extra attention to our rich history. Black history is all of our history. This is why we all should engage it; this is why we all should...
...admitted he had an atomic bomb program. Last week, he cranked up a nuclear reactor capable of producing plutonium. And what was the reaction on the streets of Seoul? There was furious protest?but it was directed at the U.S. embassy after the acquittal of two U.S. servicemen for the accidental killing of two South Korean girls...