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...product dramatically called the Kinetic Energy Interceptor. To which Gates replied, in a manner so casually dismissive that Franks seemed to shrivel in his seat, "I would just say that the security of the American people and the efficacy of missile defense are not enhanced by continuing to put money into programs ... that are essentially sinkholes for taxpayer dollars." (See pictures of the U.S. Army Reserve...
...truth, Gates has been bulletproof ever since George W. Bush lured him from Texas A&M University to replace the disastrous Donald Rumsfeld as Secretary of Defense. His mission, Gates said, was "to put Iraq in a better place," which is a spectacular understatement. Iraq was falling apart in late 2006, and Gates found the Defense Department in paralytic denial. His nonstop effort to reform the institution - abetted by military rebels who had been cast into the outer darkness by the powers that were - is a great untold story of the war on terrorism...
...When you reached the summit, you told reporters via radio that you "felt dreadful." What was wrong? The problems are too numerous to put your finger on. There is something called crotch rot [a fungal infection of the groin region], which is very painful. Luckily there's a cream for everything...
...Pyongyang to cease its nuclear and ballistic-missile programs. The result was a toothless "presidential statement" from the Security Council. Now, with the test of another nuke on May 25 - this one with more than 20 times the explosive capacity of its predecessor three years ago - Pyongyang has put the Chinese leadership in the one place they hate to be during an international crisis: directly on the spot. Indeed, says Alan Romberg, a former U.S. State Department official now with the Henry L. Stimson Center in Washington, "Pyongyang has spit in the [People's Republic of China...
...Kurras shortly after the shooting in 1967. In the file, the Stasi merely described the shooting as an "unlucky accident." Kurras was charged with manslaughter but acquitted in November 1967. After a successful appeal by prosecutors and the Ohnesorg family lawyer to Germany's highest civil court, Kurras was put on trial again in 1970 and acquitted anew. He carried on working as a police officer and steadfastly maintains to this day that the shooting was an accident...