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...endear Bush and Rumsfeld to G.O.P. conservatives, but Washington insists the shield is not aimed at China anyway. "They may even double the number" of their missiles aimed at the U.S., Powell told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Other government arms experts believe a U.S. missile shield could trigger a tenfold increase in Chinese missiles aimed at the U.S. China's push for more weapons would act only as a spur to India, which might feel compelled to increase its arsenal to keep pace with its historical nemesis. And that could then push Pakistan, India's avowed foe, to build...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Secretary Of Missile Defense | 5/14/2001 | See Source »

...with almost no rules. The enemy was all around, but he didn't know who or where they were. The dark, the confusion, the strain of listening for sounds that signaled death, the tension, the terror. Suddenly he had to make a choice, and he pulled the trigger. Oh, God, what have I done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fog of War | 5/7/2001 | See Source »

...came from anger, fear. There were rapes, beatings and murders. I heard stories from people I was close to. You're in a hot fire zone. A villager comes up from behind, let's say, a sand dune. He's surrendering, but sometimes a guy would just pull a trigger and blow him away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War and Remembrance | 5/7/2001 | See Source »

...with almost no rules. The enemy was all around, but he didn't know who or where they were. The dark, the confusion, the strain of listening for sounds that signaled death, the tension, the terror. Suddenly he had to make a choice, and he pulled the trigger. Oh, God, what have I done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fog Of War | 5/7/2001 | See Source »

...away at women and children darting through the city under their cross hairs. Collateral damage is supposed to mean a mistake, but this killing was deliberate, focused and recreational. War is a great and terrible permission. A spirit of satanic play shoots a jolt of lethal impulse through the trigger finger. This is absolute power, on a person-to-person basis. It tends to corrupt absolutely. Degenerate violence takes on a life of its own. It feeds especially on women and children, the victims of convenience. It seeks them out. In the drug wars, a shadow struggle, an American woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Collateral Damage Is Permanent | 5/7/2001 | See Source »

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