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Fitzpatrick and the first-team offense showed their ability to strike quickly, as the quarterback connected with Mazza on two touchdown strikes, including a 10-yard slant that Mazza broke for an 88-yard score...
...time I arrived at the base, the Marines were planning to strike back at insurgent positions at the edge of Fallujah that have been the source of daily harassment. Since Easy's arrival, its patrols had been engaged by the insurgents an average of three times...
...John Bailey, a soft-spoken F-18 pilot temporarily assigned here as a forward air controller, hauls his laser equipment onto the roof. He focuses his laser on a two-story building at the edge of town. He radios the pilot of an F-16 and orders an air strike. "Come on, bird," he says to himself. "You're going to fry this thing." Then: "This is going to be a 500-pounder." Then: "27 seconds." A red flash sends up a cloud of black smoke that turns white as it reaches hundreds of feet into the air. Bailey calls...
Seconds later a Marine shouts from an observation post on the roof: "Incoming!" Mortars again. Bailey points his laser toward another set of buildings. One bomb misses the target, but a second strike sends bits of the building flying high into the sky, to the delight of watching Marines. Captain Weston has another target in mind. Bailey shrugs. "It's the [commanding officer]'s call," he says. "We've got to rebuild this f______ country sooner or later. We don't want to blow up too much...
Klein's Essay illustrated Einstein's famous saying that imagination is more important than knowledge. Bush claimed that he would have done something if he had known exactly when and where al-Qaeda would strike. The statement makes plain the Administration's failure to appreciate that the mishandling of the threat from al-Qaeda was not a failure of intelligence but a failure of imagination. MICHAEL H. WEISS Marina del Rey, Calif...