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...thrust AK-47s into his ribs and pushed him into the floor behind the front seat. Climbing in the backseat, the men pinned him down with their feet and beat him in the torso with the butts of their guns. When he tried to speak, he got a sharp jab in the ribs. His captors emptied his pockets and took his cheap wristwatch and his belt and shoes. As the car sped away, one man put a hood over Waddah's head and, using a plastic tie, bound his wrists behind his back. All that happened in a few moments...
...course, many campus groups do work for noble causes effectively both at Harvard and in the world at large. They focus on inclusion and the spread of information. They organize letter writing campaigns, speak with representatives and leaders, and generally try to spread information and encourage healthy debate. This is the face that activism should take and often does take in this pragmatic world. People often ask why this generation does not protest, and the answer is that they have found more effective ways to induce change...
Until then, don’t expect us to be quiet. We know that silence is betrayal. We know that not only is it our right to dissent, it’s also our responsibility. And we know that when we speak out, what we say and do can reverberate far beyond the echo chamber of the ivory tower...
...paper, Abizaid was the right officer at the right moment. An Arab-American graduate of West Point, Abizaid studied in the Middle East, speaks some Arabic (though he is far from fluent) and commanded troops with distinction in Grenada and Gulf War I. Even today, many senior and retired officers speak of Abizaid with reverence; Sen. John Warner, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, has praised him as an "outstanding officer"; and not even his harshest critics question his commitment to service...
...Even today, some officers say, Abizaid continues to speak in terms that don't match the fight on the ground in Iraq. "U.S. forces have never been defeated in a fight at platoon level or above and we never will," he told a military group last month. He's still missing the point, says one frustrated officer: "It's an irrelevant comparison because those types of encounters are rare or nonexistent in Iraq." Says another officer: "We're not fighting the Big Red Soviet Army here, we're dealing with hit-and-run guerrilla warfare...