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Wolfowitz added that complaints about the postwar mess reminded him of the fleeting wartime controversy over troop levels and strategy. He may be right. The situation in Iraq could improve. But there is a larger problem that Wolfowitz refused to acknowledge: we are involved in a long-term occupation of a country that detests non-Muslim occupiers. He hinted at this once, when he was reminded that he had disputed, as "wildly off the mark," Army Chief of Staff Eric Shinseki's prewar prediction that "several hundred thousand" troops would be needed to pacify Iraq. Wolfowitz said he took "several...
...Wolfowitz added that complaints about the postwar mess reminded him of the fleeting wartime controversy over troop levels and strategy. He may be right. The situation in Iraq could improve. But there is a larger problem that Wolfowitz refused to acknowledge: we are involved in a long-term occupation of a country that detests non-Muslim occupiers. He hinted at this once, when he was reminded that he had disputed, as "wildly off the mark," Army Chief of Staff Eric Shinseki's prewar prediction that "several hundred thousand" troops would be needed to pacify Iraq. Wolfowitz said he took "several...
...rich province. Martial law was declared, removing the last pretense that Aceh has ever had a functioning civilian government. Renewed fighting erupted across the province, killing dozens. Jet fighters and U.S.-made Bronco OV-10 bombers screamed low over the palm trees while tanks and armored troop carriers rumbled through the countryside. More than 200 schools were burned to the ground within 36 hours, a wanton destruction of property blamed on GAM in the past, but which this time was so well orchestrated that one independent observer suggested the military might have been behind it. Curfews, either military-ordered...
...refuse to do this in the face of one of the largest military buildups in Indonesian history. The army's objective this time around appears to be nothing less than GAM's eradication. "We will fight them all out," said armed forces chief General Endriartono Sutarto during a recent troop inspection. "The military is the final resort in settling the Aceh question...
...when I see it," says one 45-year-old village leader, who is too afraid to give his name. We meet in the ramshackle sports hall of Lhokseumawe Polytechnic, where about a thousand refugees (700 of them children) from two villages near Simpang Keramhave sought shelter from a troop buildup in their area. They rely on donations begged from vehicles passing the campus gates...