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...next speaker, Toni Troop, of Jane Doe, Inc., spoke out passionately against domestic violence...
...high. The limp excuse that bin Laden might be transmitting his messages over Fox News ignores the fact that terrorists have many easier means of communication—and in any case, the independent Arabic-language station Al Jazeera is available via satellite. The networks were not broadcasting troop movements, but videos and images of significant public importance, and they should not be pressured into keeping such information...
...really. The first few days were focused on Taliban air defenses, and then on fixed targets such as ministries and logistics bases. Now they're looking for emerging targets, such as mass troop concentrations and armor. The AC-130 is often used to support ground troops, but it's also used solo. The U.S. is clearly moving from fixed to mobile tactical targets. The more you hit those mobile tactical targets, the more damage you do to the Taliban. And, of course, you have to be careful about hitting them too hard if you don't want to topple...
...Laden stretches his definition of American aggression further. He blames the U.S. for the killing of Bosnian Muslims by Christian Serbs because of a U.N. arms embargo against Bosnia until 1994. He even counts in this category the 1992-94 mission by U.S. troops to mostly Muslim Somalia as part of a U.N. effort to assist a famine-starved population caught between battling warlords. In bin Laden's book, the troop landing was simply a show of force by the U.S. "to scare the Muslim world, saying that it is able to do whatever it desires." He asked...
...photographs themselves, this is reflected in a consummate lack of all human presence in all but a few of the images. Ristelhueber instead chooses to focus on the vestiges of conflict--the remnants of troop movements, of battles, of actions taken and not being taken. She is particular fond, for example, of images of rusty cans and shells in the middle of a huge desert . (One is reminded often, in perusing the exhibit, of P.B. Shelley's timeless words from Ozymandias: "Nothing beside remains. Round the decay/Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare/The lone and level sands stretch far away...