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...Thank you for sharing "The Fatigue of War." As a Cuban refugee, I cherish my freedom in the U.S., while others less lucky will never know how it feels to be free. Maggie Salazar Bloomfield Hills, Mich...
...War Too The title of your Dec. 14 issue, "It's His War Now," demonstrates a problem with modern media. While our young men and women are suffering physical and emotional calamities overseas, the talking heads and magazine editors remain obsessed with declaring winners and handicapping horse races. We are a nation at war, and this war, like all others, does not belong to one man. Mike Keller Tampa...
...game, of course, is now over, but it looks like the war over Kolleon's words is still in progress. Many of the (sometimes inflammatory) comments on his post seem to find his "apology" unsatisfactory. While it remains to be seen who will win the last word in that battle, the Crimson, with its 92-71 victory over the Redhawks, has already had the final say on the court...
Shopkeepers are whispering in the medieval, walled Old City in Sana'a, the capital of Yemen, about a war they cannot yet imagine. Workers, students and the old men who sit outside the ancient mosques are wondering what fighting between al-Qaeda and the government would look like. Would it be like the conflict in the north, where extremist insurgents occupy villages with gunfire and government bombs rain down from the sky? Is al-Qaeda an army or just a bunch of ill-equipped gangs? "All citizens are scared," says Jamal al-Najjar, an English-language translator, while waiting...
...Sana'a, war has always been near. Rarely, however, does it breach the mountains that are topped with military bases and surround the capital. Much of the populace credits Yemen's President of 30 years, Ali Abdullah Saleh, with unifying north and south Yemen in 1990 and with holding on to the unification during a civil war four years later. "You should have seen it," Ghalib Onkumah, a teacher, says, shaking his head and making a face. In the dark days before Saleh took over, there were endless tribal and civil wars, he says. Onkumah, like many Yemenis, is confident...