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...national security meeting. Unlike Garner, whom some U.S. officials criticize for failing to engage the Army commanders, Bremer works closely with Lieut. General Sanchez to determine how the military deploys its resources. Since Bremer's arrival, U.S. troops have become more visible peacekeepers: conducting foot patrols, guarding schools, building soccer fields, cleaning streets. "What is unusual is that Lieut. General Sanchez has been directed by the President to support my efforts," Bremer says. "I cannot order Sanchez to move his troops to a certain area. But I can indicate commander's intent"--which means that although he doesn't issue...
...soldier and his strapped carbine. The children who normally would have swarmed the beaches to greet the Senegalese presidential yacht, were kept well out of sight, behind ubiquitous metal cordons. To brighten their penning they draped the bars of the barren blockades with intensely colored local tapestries and played soccer in the dirt courtyard while they waited...
...called Mandelbaum last week and asked him whether he thought social work was now in style. "Indeed," he said, and so it is. In Iraq today, U.S. soldiers are building soccer fields and standing guard over girls' schools. This is being done in the name of an Administration whose members openly despised Clinton's habit of using the armed forces for missions short of war. ("We don't need to have the 82nd Airborne escorting kids to kindergarten," said Condoleezza Rice, now National Security Adviser, to the New York Times in 2000.) As for Liberia, all the key phrases last...
Take the claims of Raad Hamoudi, a former star goalkeeper of the Iraqi national soccer team who last week found himself back in Baghdad's al-Shaab stadium. He was there with other prisoners, he says, after being picked up by U.S. soldiers looking for a Baath official who lived next door to the house where Hamoudi was staying. (A military spokeswoman would say merely that Hamoudi was arrested "for a reason.") It was only because a U.S. intelligence official took the initiative to find Hamoudi--who claimed to have organized sporting events for the occupying forces--that...
...favorite example of this came a few years ago, when New Jersey was given a Major League Soccer franchise. The MetroStars, as the team was named, would play their home games at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. Yet rather than call themselves the New Jersey MetroStars, the team’s torturously contrived name was the “New York/New Jersey” MetroStars. Seriously. To this day, I can’t think of a sillier team name in all of professional athletics. (The rationale given at the time was that the MetroStars represented the entire...