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The need to shift American alliances across Europe
Victor Davis Hanson:
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M. Villepin, who claims he knows something of the latter career of his hero, Napoleon, should remember that nations can survive impotence or immorality — but not both. And that "both" is exactly the dividend of his recent pathetic gambit. ... Given the antics of Belgium with its wild criminal courts and anti-American rhetoric, it is a cruel joke to house NATO in Brussels. Better to move the headquarters to Warsaw or perhaps Rome. France should decide whether it is in or out of the alliance, but it can no longer be both. They, not we, have nearly destroyed NATO...
The bridge at Samawah
Great story, weaving three perspectives -- US soldier, Iraqi civilian, and US medic. Real and touching. The theme is risk of death, doubt and fear, and survival.
Washington Post:
[April 4, 2003: Early Morning] The city of Samawah reveals itself in the luminescent glow of tracers fired from an AC-130 gunship flying somewhere overhead. Jagged outlines of palms define the banks of the Euphrates River. Brick perimeters of low buildings appear, and then vanish with the fade of the illuminations. The breeze from the city carries diluted hints of burning. Closer, the smells are of chewing tobacco and of sour infantrymen who haven't showered in weeks. Silence is upset by explosions, then a ringing in the ears, then an impatient rooster crowing. Dawn is still several minutes away, but it's what everyone is waiting for, sitting on the soft dirt next to a cement factory, ready to cross a bridge with first light and march into the heart of a city of about 140,000 people.Read it all.