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...America would prevail. Rumsfeld wanted him to do it faster and lighter, in part because he didn't want to wait the four or five months required to get all those troops dressed and ready. But as the diplomatic wrangling about inspections dragged into the fall and winter, the spat became academic: Franks was getting all the time he needed to prepare his massive strike force. Now, with a war as little as a week or two away, the plan looks remarkably similar to what Franks proposed more than a year ago: five carriers are on station in the Mediterranean...
...climb into the back seat. Wiset guns the engine and the vehicle peels out from the curb with an ear-splitting squeal. We part the crowds of ravers, rastas, scammers, weirdos and the rest of the Khao San fauna before we're spat out into the dozen or so lanes of sheer automotive apoplexy that is Ratchadamnoen Avenue...
Thanks to increased spat sales, we've opened three new plants in Ho Chi Minh City this month alone...
YEMEN Yemen voted against the war in 1991, and the U.S. cut Yemen's entire $70 million aid program. Yemen has no intention of getting into a spat with Washington this time and will probably allow U.S. ships to refuel at its ports and U.S. planes to fly over its terrain...
...situation has deteriorated to the point that American soldiers stationed in South Korea are in more danger from South Korean hooligans than North Korean bullets. Soldiers are regularly cursed, spat on, discriminated against and assaulted for the privilege of leaving their homes and families to serve as sacrificial tripwire in the event of a war. Meanwhile, South Korea reaps billions of dollars in economic benefits from the U.S. military presence in addition to the foreign investment it attracts as a beneficiary of the U.S. security umbrella...