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...belief that their nation fought always and only for freedom and sent to Vietnam ostensibly to protect its people from an invading force of communists from the north, Kerrey and his men - like hundreds of thousands of others - found themselves in a moral vortex. While the politicians in far-off Washington never had their illusions challenged by daily reality, those sent to do the fighting were quickly apprised of the fact that for many South Vietnamese, the invaders were not the North Vietnamese, but the Americans. And often they found themselves in situations where their enemy included the civilian population...
...great prophets of the past before ascending through the seven heavens. On his way up he sought the advice of Moses, Aaron, Enoch, Jesus, John the Baptist and Abraham before entering the presence of God. The story shows the yearning of the Muslims to come from far-off Arabia right into the heart of the monotheistic family, symbolized by Jerusalem...
...Bush, who rightly says he has "great faith in the economy" over the long haul, backloads the bulk of the benefits in the second five years of the plan - too late to blunt even an extended slowdown, and if he's making some Keynesian argument about cutting taxes in far-off times of plenty, he's not articulating it very well...
...backed in his war against rebels backed by Rwanda and Uganda. The Kabila family's standing in Kinshasa may be illustrated by the fact that when Laurent Kabila was shot in his office by a bodyguard, he was bundled onto a plane bound for an emergency room in far-off Zimbabwe rather than being sent for treatment in his own capital. So young Joseph apparently knows better than to rely on the local troops for his protection. Indeed, Congolese would be forgiven for thinking he was not their own leader as much as the spokesman for the Zimbabwean and Angolan...
...Kabila had no political base, of course, outside of his home region in the far-off southeast, and his autocratic ineptitude and shameless cronyism did little to endear him to the residents of the capital, who saw him as a Rwandan imposition on a country that might have had its own ideas on alternatives to Mobutu. Kabila's failure to stamp out the Hutu insurgency exasperated the Rwandans, and his leadership style fomented widespread resentment in the ranks of those who'd fought in the rebel armies of the east. When Kabila switched his support to the Hutu groups...