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...like heroes, costs reaching a billion dollars a week and going up, some troops homesick and disillusioned, their spouses and parents having no idea when they will see their loved ones again--and no end in sight to any of it. At a gate to a 3rd Infantry Division base near Fallujah last week, Sergeant Michael Baroni sat on a tank and dreamed of drinking a glass of fresh milk. After 10 months in the Middle East, he says, "I just want to get out of this country, which, by the way, the Iraqis can have...
...illustration that showed how a B-1 dropped four satellite-guided bombs in Baghdad's Mansur District that targeted Saddam Hussein and at least one of his sons. The graphic prompted an e-mail from Kevin Cox, a computer technician who works on the B1s at Ellsworth Air Force Base near Rapid City, S.D., The crew enjoyed the graphic and asked for some reprints. I said yes. Then I asked Kevin if he could arrange for me to hitch a ride. To my surprise, the folks at Ellsworth said maybe...
...persuaded my wife to spend our summer vacation in beachless South Dakota, and arrived at the base on a rainy June morning. There was no guarantee at the time that I would get a ride. I was offered a session in the B1 flight simulator and an opportunity to interview the pilots involved in the Mansur mission. One of the pilots, Capt. Chris Wachter, accompanied me in the simulator, an exact replica of a B1 cockpit. Hydraulic lifts under our seats shook our bodies as we "soared" through a series of acrobatic maneuvers through virtual skies. It wasn't until...
...fact that most of these attacks have occurred in the "Sunni triangle" stretching north from Baghdad, however, signifies that the insurgency has a distinct social base. Sunni Arabs constitute 15 percent of Iraq's population, but they have dominated its politics and economy for most of the past century. Many of them were not Baathists, but as Iraq expert Professor Juan Cole, of the University of Michigan, notes, the Sunnis enjoyed a privileged status under Baathist rule equivalent to that of white South Africans under apartheid - the state always rewarded them with a disproportionate allocation of resources and opportunities...
...Bush Administration, recognizing that Abbas has no independent political base among Palestinians, is sympathetic to the need to build up his standing, and has, at Abbas's behest, urged Israel to cease construction of a security fence that will function as a de facto border penning the Palestinians into about half of the West Bank - a request Israel firmly rebuffed. But pressing the Israelis to release men convicted for killing Israelis won't be easy, with an election season looming. Even if that's what Washington concluded was needed to keep Abbas intact. Because even more importantly, the Bush administration...