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Once the coalition hands over power, won't Iraq still need an effective Iraqi army in order to provide national security and combat the threat of international terrorists...
President Bush made a serious mistake. He should have sent more troops to combat the terrorists in Afghanistan. He hasn't figured out that while he is sending people to find nonexistent weapons in Iraq, the enemy is regrouping in Afghanistan. What is Bush going to do now? Attack Syria? ARUSH SARWAR Kenner...
...told me. In the 1990s, Shalikashvili conducted an uphill campaign to change that. "I tried to establish a Department of Peacekeeping at the Army War College," he added, "but there was resistance--and to this day the doctrine remains that the best peacekeepers are the soldiers best trained for combat...
Christman, Shalikashvili and other military experts proposed some reasonable parameters for a new force. First, it would have to augment the current troop levels. The purpose would be to free up units like the 101st Airborne, now nation building in northern Iraq, for combat. "We don't have enough troops to do what needs to be done now," Shalikashvili told me. Second, these would have to be real soldiers, mentally tough, physically fit and combat ready. "Any peaceful checkpoint can become a battlefield in a heartbeat," said retired Major General Bill Nash, who commanded U.S. troops in Bosnia. There...
...question is a once obscure statute drafted in 1789 by the first U.S. Congress and known as the Alien Tort Claims Act. Originally designed to combat piracy, it fell into disuse until 1980, when courts began applying it to liability for aiding and abetting violations of fundamental human rights no matter where they occur--a standard similar to one used to prosecute German companies at the Nuremberg trials after World War II. More than two dozen cases have been filed against firms doing business in developing countries. No judgments have been awarded so far, but the potential liability could reach...