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...fields concealed spikes, booby traps permeated jungles, and barracks were vulnerable to terrorist attacks. No wonder the grunts were paranoid and their commanders frustrated. So strategy was reduced to a basic formula: kill as many of the enemy as possible in hopes of breaking their morale. We deployed our vast arsenal, and butchered at least a million of them. We gauged progress by piles of twisted corpses?the grim "body count." Yet the Vietnamese continued to fight. After the war, Colonel Harry G. Summers Jr. crowed to a communist officer, "We won every battle." Replied his analog: "That...
...years ago it was little more than an African dream: a patchwork of game reserves cutting across national borders and cultural boundaries, opening vast areas of the continent to the exciting new world of ecotourism. Now the vision of Peace Parks is being realized. In southern Africa one is already in business, several more are on track and by the end of this year the gates will open on one of the world's biggest...
...This vast animal kingdom, a deal involving South Africa, Mozambique and Zimbabwe, guarantees the lives of at least 1,000 elephants. Instead of being culled because their habitat can't sustain them, they will be trucked-in the world's biggest managed wildlife migration - from South Africa's Kruger Park to Mozambique...
China is one of the most likely targets for the defenses that Bush has proposed, as its small arsenal of nuclear warheads could be nearly completely countered. Russia’s arsenal is far too vast to be defended against, but China—which would fear an American first strike without the ability to retaliate—would have a strong incentive to build up its arsenal in order to overwhelm the defenses. A renewed arms buildup could be severely destabilizing, and leaving China out of this process only courts further tension...
Certainly, the FBI did not portray Carnivore in this light. There is a real problem here, and Carnivore is only one of many examples of the need for legal regulation in the vast technological frontier. The Internet technology on which many of us have become so reliant, and which we assume is private, is now backfiring in ways that jeopardize our fundamental liberties. So until I start planning a revolution, purchasing arms on the black market or consorting with fundamentalist terrorists, the U.S. government should stay out of my life. And even then, it should approach me with a search...