Word: withdrawals
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Except that the acclaimed veterans don't want to remember. The hallowed are also the haunted, their nightmares contaminated for decades with the faces of dead comrades. They withdraw into themselves, refuse to speak about the war. They hide their medals as evidence of their crime--that they survived when others didn't. Or did they? Their war experiences make them, in a way, the living dead...
...ready (the Kurds, the Saudis, the Turks, the Jordanians, etc.) who fear the jihadis as much as we do and potential allies (the Baathists and the Sunni tribal leaders) who want to rule their own piece of Iraq and also fear and despise the jihadis. As we gradually withdraw, we and others could provide Baathists the wherewithal to crush the terrorists. Without a large U.S. military presence, they probably would do a better...
...Brownsberger’s answer with “ditto.” Only on the Iraq war and abortion did the candidates differ. Firenze felt that it would be a “bad idea”—and unconstitutional—for the governor to withdraw the state’s National Guard from Iraq. But Brownsberger said, “I support our troops, and think they should come home.” He said the state needs the guard here to protect local gas reserves and to help in the event of a natural...
...Cook Islands” and “Survivor: Jim Crow South.” And it is this insensitivity that has led even such a paragon of human rights as Coca-Cola to be somewhat critical of “Survivor: Cook Islands,” choosing to withdraw advertising from the show along with other companies such as Proctor & Gamble, Johnson & Johnson, Campbell Soup, General Motors, and Home Depot.Alas, “Survivor: Cook Islands” is merely a stunt, and the numbers show it. Only a little more than 18 million people tuned into the show?...
...difficult to communicate the damage done to Dr. Yau’s reputation by this article,” the lawyer concluded, adding that Yau sent the letter with “the very sincere hope that they will act quickly and thoughtfully to withdraw, retract, and correct the misstatements made about him and the attacks against him in this article and to help assist with repairing his reputation.”The New Yorker has so far not apologized, releasing a statement saying that they “stand by the piece and the journalists.” According...