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...well as traditional U.S. allies in the Arab world and Europe, have warned that the occupation itself contributes to the security problem, the security problem also suggests that there'll be no early end to the occupation, either. Pentagon plans to begin drawing down the U.S. troop complement in Iraq by next summer, on current indicators, looks more than a little optimistic. As Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld put it in a recent memo to colleagues leaked last week to the media, what lies ahead for the U.S. in Iraq is a "long, hard slog...
...smarter-then-thou arrogant bastards at Harvard College, well, it just gets worse at Harvard Law School, as shown by this semi-classic flick. Timothy Bottoms, recently of “That’s My Bush,” goes to Harvard law school and meets troop after troop of ridiculous-if-you’ve-never-been here caricatures, including “Contracts Law” Professor Kingsfield and his beautiful daughter Susan, played by Wagner. He falls in love with the daughter and learns to tackle the demanding class, with constant humorous interludes involving Harvard weirdo...
Cambridge Boy Scout Troop 45 sold caramel apples and blue cotton candy from their tent by the river, after sleeping there overnight...
...Russians suspect that many of Kadyrov's Chechen police are legalized guerrillas who actively fight with or provide intelligence to the insurgents--charges that Kadyrov's aides shrug off as unproved. According to a Russian officer, these so-called loyal Chechens regularly feed information on troop movements to the rebels. When his unit helicopters into the field, this officer is supposed to inform the area commandant's office, which is staffed by Chechens. But he never lets his chopper land at the planned destination. "I always order the pilot to land some two or three hundred meters away and open...
...military pressures are quite serious. The Army will face a troop-replacement crisis in March, when several units are scheduled to rotate home. A few weeks ago, the Congressional Budget Office found that the Army would be able to maintain a force of only 67,000 to 106,000 troops after that, unless the tours of the 150,000 currently serving in Iraq are extended or significant numbers of National Guards, reservists and Marines are rotated in or significant foreign help is found, which is unlikely. "We'll get it done somehow," a military source told me, with a sigh...