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...wasn't just Pentagon nerves that got in the way of a more aggressive counterterrorism policy. So did politics. After the U.S.S. Cole was bombed, the secretive Joint Special Operations Command at Fort Bragg, N.C., drew up plans to have Delta Force members swoop into Afghanistan and grab bin Laden. But the warriors were never given the go-ahead; the Clinton Administration did not order an American retaliation for the attack. "We didn't do diddly," gripes a counterterrorism official. "We didn't even blow up a baby-milk factory." In fact, despite strong suspicion that bin Laden was behind...
Americans have always been intrigued by the idea that the battlefield makes people a little crazy; it's a staple of (anti)war movies, from Paths of Glory (1957) to Born on the Fourth of July (1989). But what happened at Fort Bragg may turn out to be more mundane--and in a way sadder--since domestic violence remains a chronic problem...
...chair of a Defense Department task force on domestic violence. "But if you think about it, we have 2,000 women killed every year in America [by partners or exes]. There's going to be one or two or three a month in any larger-sized community." Fort Bragg has 20,000 troops...
Some 80% of intimate-partner homicides are preceded by a pattern of abuse. There were warning signs in at least two of the Bragg cases. Married for eight years, the Griffins had separated at least twice, most recently in May. Wilma Watson, Jennifer Wright's mother, told Time that her daughter's marriage began to unravel two years ago, just as Bill Wright's assignments were increasing. After each of his deployments, their estrangement intensified. "Mommy, he's like a different person when he comes back," Jennifer would...
...been 32 years since Fort Bragg's most infamous murders, the 1970 killings of the wife and daughters of Captain Jeffrey MacDonald, chronicled in the best seller Fatal Vision. Since then, the armed forces have addressed domestic violence with more counseling and support for families, but some say the Pentagon has not done enough. Confidentiality isn't guaranteed for victims who come forward, according to Tucker, and only about 30% of Army bases employ a person trained and identified as a victims' advocate. Perhaps, then, we should look closer to home than Afghanistan for the reasons four women are dead...