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Assistant District Attorney Adrienne Lynch described Pring-Wilson as an aggressor who opened the door to the car and began stabbing Colono almost immediately...
...armed conflict, guerrilla tactics can be an equalizer. They are weapons, China's Mao Zedong once wrote, "that a nation inferior in arms and military equipment may employ against a more powerful aggressor." That's precisely the situation in which Iraq now finds itself. The coalition rules the skies over Iraq--Saddam's tiny air force hasn't once scrambled its jets since the start of fighting--raining down Wagnerian fury on cities and armies. In open combat, Iraq's armored divisions are being annihilated by allied forces. In such circumstances, it is natural for the Iraqis to resort...
...armed conflict, guerrilla tactics can be an equalizer. They are weapons, China's Mao Zedong once wrote, "that a nation inferior in arms and military equipment may employ against a more powerful aggressor." That's precisely the situation in which Iraq now finds itself. The coalition rules the skies over Iraq - Saddam's tiny air force hasn't once scrambled its jets since the start of fighting - raining down Wagnerian fury on cities and armies. In open combat, Iraq's armored divisions are being annihilated by allied forces. In such circumstances, it is natural for the Iraqis to resort...
Peace has not been given its fair chance. In Monday’s national address, Bush denigrated the weapons inspections process, but completely omitted the role the U.S. has played in purposefully hindering inspections. Saddam is a horrendous dictator, but not an uncontainable aggressor...
...issue is therefore not whether to start a war. It is whether to end one by rewarding the aggressor and simply ignoring his infractions of the truce. Such a policy, inasmuch as it clearly rewards unprovoked violence, is immoral and imprudent. Have we exhausted every single alternative to war? Well, we have spent the past 12 years trying to find peaceful ways to get Saddam to live up to his promises. Waves of inspections, countless resolutions, occasional use of targeted force under the Clinton Administration, crippling economic sanctions and finally an attempt under U.N. Resolution 1441 to give Saddam...