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...Hanoi during the Vietnam War, Stewart grew up in Hong Kong, Malaysia and Scotland before joining the Foreign Office himself and serving in Indonesia and Montenegro. In 2000, he took two years off to walk 9,600 km across Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal and India, seeking to better understand the countries now so important to the West. Then, for 11 months he served as deputy governor of a southern Iraqi province under the Coalition Provisional Authority-a stint that yielded the searingly honest The Prince of the Marshes: And Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq...
...deployed for my second tour in Iraq and can relate all too well to the cover story [April 16]. It is important for the American people to know the state of the Army. Many of my fellow junior officers are leaving because of frequent and lengthy deployments. We all understand the call to serve and have done so without complaint and with distinction. But there is no substitute for spending time with your wife or children. The Army is at a crossroads, and the only way to prevent a further decline in readiness and fighting ability is by electing leaders...
...veteran of Operation Enduring Freedom. Your article provided no benefit to the U.S. but helped only the enemy. I would hope TIME would do all it could to help the U.S. win this war. Now is the time to fight for our country and way of life. I understand you may not wish to fight, but do not hinder those...
People need good. This need is not the necessity to increase our average utility or to please a higher being. It is the need for us to understand that as humans, our fates are intertwined. Our world will always be a place where evil lurks and chills the heart of men, but it is our common home. When people lose good, they lose their humanity, and we all lose hope. The shooting at Virginia Tech—in all its horror—should remind us why being good to each other is more than a trivial matter. Our fates...
Perhaps the tragedy of mankind isn’t our wars, genocides, carpet-bombings, and shooting rampages, but our incapacity to understand evil without replicating it. Despite the efforts of millions of souls, no evil is ever the last evil. We forget too quickly and the temptation grows in our minds again to remember the taste of that forbidden fruit...