FCNL - period ended 8.15.2006

FCNL/War/Iraq//US troop scandals: Is Iraq different?/Christian Science Monitor/Boston/MA/USA/7-Aug-06/... "Constantly harassed, constantly on guard, not sure who is with us or against us or simply passive, IEDs randomly striking convoys at places that were clear the day before, sectarian strife bordering on civil war, and a political system that seems incapable of getting its act together are some of the factors creating the psychology of lawlessness in which atrocities occur," says Dan Smith, a retired Army colonel who served in Vietnam as an infantry platoon leader and intelligence adviser and is now affiliated with the Friends Committee on National Legislation, the Quaker lobby in Washington. ...

FCNL/War/Crime and Punishment/No Standards, No Accountability/Foreign Policy In Focus/Washington/DC/USA/1-Aug-06/... Policy In Focus (online at www.fpif.org), a retired US Army colonel, and a senior fellow on military affairs at the Friends Committee on National Legislation. ...