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When you stand in front of your flag and listen to your anthem, what goes on before your mind's eye? Possibly not much, because there is no immediate attachment. You do not sense any pride, or should I say deep pride. Would you stand there with a tear in your eye and a swelling of your chest? Not likely. There have been no events to make it so. On Remembrance Day as you stand in front of a cenotaph, what is seen in those memorials that should make you hold your breath? Not much. . . . . To read...

OOSTERBEEK, Netherlands (AP) - Sixty years ago, the skies above the Dutch countryside filled with the white silk of parachutes of 30,000 Allied troops while tanks rolled up from Belgium along a narrow road that became known as "Hell's Highway." In the legendary "Market Garden" operation, which began Sept. 17th, 1944, a massive force that was supposed to end World War II found it had attempted to go "a bridge too far." A ceremony Sunday commemorated the heroic but doomed assault with Dutch schoolchildren raising flowers above their heads before laying them on the graves of the 1,750 Allied soldiers...

The religion of peace (yea right!) gets it - but the Dem's still don't! We are at war people and they know how to fight it! The patience of these people is a never ending resource - after all they have waited hundreds of years for this opportunity! From Healing Irag:Mohammed Bashar Al-Faidhy, spokesman of the Association of Muslim Scholars, addressed the 'Iraqi resistance' in an open message at a press conference broadcast by the Arab satellite channels yesterday. "To our brothers in the Islamic Army of Iraq. We wish to inform you that we totally understand the extreme rage...

From Bali, Casablanca, and Manhattan to Moscow, New Delhi, and Madrid, the evidence is too vast, clear, and appalling to ignore: The world is at war. Having been in the thick of this mayhem longer than others, Israel is routinely asked by states victimized by terrorism to help in a variety of aspects, from intelligence gathering and targeted killings to bomb detection and corpse identification. The victims are, of course, doing well to seek such assistance in Israel, and Israel is right in offering it. However, besides such technical aid there is a mental syndrome that frequently afflicts new terrorism...

LONDON: More than five million detailed aerial photographs from World War Two go onto the Internet from Monday, giving the public their first views of some of the most dramatic and grisly moments of the conflict. From the smoke billowing from the incinerator of the Auschwitz concentration camp in which millions of Jews were murdered by the Nazis, to the US landings on Omaha beach on D-Day, June 6, 1944 , the pictures tell dramatic stories. "These images allow us to see the real war at first hand," project head Allan William said. "It is like a live action replay."...

from the June 27, 2003 edition - http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0627/p06s01-wosc.html Taliban regroups - on the roadMobile Taliban training camps along Afghan border provinces point to a coordinated effort with other groups like Al Qaeda.By Owais Tohid | Special to The Christian Science Monitor TRIBAL AREAS, PAKISTAN - Mullah Malang, a senior Taliban warrior, is impatiently waiting for his ill wife to die. His presence, he says, is needed in southern Afghanistan. Mr. Malang's Taliban superiors have assigned him to help set up mobile training camps for fledgling fighters in the increasingly lawless border provinces. With their ranks routed and camps destroyed by...

SIMON WIESENTHAL, the world’s most famous Nazi hunter, has ended his search for the murderers of his people. Mr Wiesenthal, 94, says in an interview published today that his days of hunting down the killers are over. “I found the mass murderers I was looking for, and I have outlived all of them. If there are a few I didn’t look for, they are now too old and fragile to stand trial. My work is done,” he told the Austrian weekly magazine Format. Mr Wiesenthal chose Vienna after the war as his base of operations because of the support the...

MIAMI — At the beginning of World War II, Magda Kalman lived in an elegantly furnished apartment in the Jewish quarter of Budapest. Near the end of the war, the Nazis and their Hungarian collaborators stole her family's Persian rugs, jewelry, paintings and other valuables. "They took everything from us, and we had to start all over again," Kalman, 86, said last week as she looked at a photograph of a Persian rug in an old auction catalog of precious goods confiscated during the war. Kalman recently joined thousands of other Holocaust survivors who are suing to be compensated for...

There were 17.5 MILLION civilians deaths in World War II and 37.5 MILLION TOTAL deaths. According to the standards some people try to impose on the Iraqi war today, we shouldn't have fought World War II, because large number of civilians died. Yet World War II was a just war and so is the Iraqi war. The alternative to war can be worse. I looked up this war statistics (details at link above), to put it in context, that while casualties: military and civilian, are unavoidable, but that doesn't invalidate the need for war to fight and remove evil from...

Except for the arrest of a leading al Qaeda official, the pre-war news has not been happy. Turkey turned its back on America at the eleventh hour, blocking U.S. troop deployments and throwing Washington’s military calculations into confusion. The French recently talked of vetoing a UN resolution on the use of military force against Iraq. Even the Pope, a man who lived under communism in Poland, has declared that a war against totalitarian Iraq would be immoral. On March 5 the Pope sent an emissary to warn President Bush that, “God is not on your side if you invade Iraq.”...

As the Malaysian Prime Minister sees it, the Third World War has already begun between the 'enemies of the Axis of Evil and Satan.'In a provocative speech to the delegates at the start of the annual World Economic Forum, Mahatir Mohammad painted a picture of the West, particularly the United States, fighting an enemy it doesn't understand and doesn't seek to understand. 'We fear terrorists. We fear flying. We fear nightclubs. We fear parcels. We fear white powder. We fear shoes. We fear Muslims. We fear metal cutlery. ' he said. ''They fear starvation. They fear military invasion. They fear...

What Not To Write On Your Security Clearance Formas reported in the silent-tristero list and RISKS Date: 01 Apr 88 1620 PSTFrom: Les Earnest <LES@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>Subject: The "previous account" referred to in RISKS-6.51 e-t-a-o-n-r-i Spy and the FBI Reading a book got me into early trouble--I had an FBI record by age twelve. This bizarre incident caused a problem much later when I needed a security clearance. I learned that I could obtain one only by concealing my sordid past. A friend named Bob and I read the book ``Secret and Urgent,'' by Fletcher Pratt [Blue Ribbon Books; Garden City, NY;...

World War III? Peter Schwartz If it is true as many are arguing that World War III has begun then it is critical to understand what the war is about, and where it might take us. Is it really a war? What are its origins? Why is the U.S. the target? What is the short-term political and military situation? And what are the resulting long-term scenarios? The Role of the Failed States It is convenient and easy to blame one madman, Osama bin Laden, as the villain of the story. If we get him the struggle is over. Unfortunately...

Summary U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney's trip to the Middle East is in response to two fears. One is the American fear that al Qaeda will eventually acquire nuclear weapons and destroy American cities. The other is a fear in the Middle East, and indeed globally, that the United States, in the course of defending itself against this threat, will completely overturn the international system and impose upon the world an American empire. Both fears are reasonable. Analysis Sept. 11 was a terrible day for the United States, but it did not threaten the very fabric of American society. Fifty...