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...ACCIDENTAL SOLDIER...
...fence even in the slightest, if you weren't 100% sure you wanted to be in this fight, you shouldn't be here at all. Beyer didn't know those cadets or whether they knew her or whether they saw her as a laid-back swimmer type without a soldier's steel. Still, their comments cut straight through her and destroyed the frail truce she had made with West Point. "I just shut up," she says. "But I was so angry. 'What the hell am I doing here?' I asked myself. The attitude was, If you didn't grow...
...military life because he wanted something more than just a good job. He originally had his heart set on going into the Navy to become a fighter pilot, but when he visited West Point, he fell in love with its emphasis on the basic relationship of leader to soldier, its elemental emphasis on men, not machinery. He didn't focus on just the dreamier ideals. The minutiae of leadership and the daily self-assessment--Am I doing enough to prepare myself?--became an obsession. As he rose into his first leadership roles during sophomore year, Zielinski calmly assessed his relationship...
Finally, McKinney gives the answer to the case study: There is no answer. Not one single answer, anyhow. It's all just guesses, and McKinney's guess is that you should leverage the strong Iraqi aversion to having a death on one's conscience. Tell the farmer that the soldier lying out there is a human being and that his death would be on the farmer's head. In other words, use your judgment, considering everything you have learned about the place and the culture and human nature...
...rational, in-depth analysis of what is going on." In reports about Iraq, the U.S. "occupation army" has become simply the "American military." In coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, however, a recent report on the Israeli-constructed wall separating the two sides included extended footage of an Israeli soldier pinning a Palestinian to the ground with his boot. The repetitive broadcasting of such images is one of the reasons that U.S. critics charge al-Jazeera with anti- Western bias...