Scratch the Marines idea.... get friendly members of OAS to deploy their grads of the US Army's 'School of Freedom and Democratic Tactics' to police Haiti as they should and stop the criminals from preying on those who want to rebuild in peace.

Why can't the Haitians just get on down to their building supply store and charge up what they need to fix the damage. They'll never get ahead until they learn to stand up on their own.

Send in the Marines to stop the criminals from preying on those who want to rebuild in peace.

Progressively speaking the current administration is engaged on a mission of redemption that's unlike the former missions in the middle east. But before that mission can begin the security of those humanitarians who are to execute it has to be ensured. And so for a little while, a very little while we hope, it is necessary to fight terror. It may be necessary to destroy Afghanistan before it can be saved.

Deth from above!

Who'd want to take out the education department. If it wan't Al Shabab, then it had to be AQ. Or then again it might have been an extreme act in a family feud.

The US is still involved in Somalia, playing with the parties and arming allies. Once in a while a little bit of heavy metal to get where others can't go. Destabilization and 'peace' in the Horn of Africa without much investment. AQ could take a lesson from that.

Did Bill say hash? Like as in Black Afghan?
Far out man, those neocons know their dope.
Verrry impressive.

Nothing like a good buzz and an airstrike, it sort of just makes things feel ... worthwhile.

Not for the first time are Americans confusing themselves with everybody else. Dollars and cents AREN'T the motive force for everything, and some things really are, credit card jokes aside, priceless.

The notion that enemy forces are just 'making a living' $75 at a time, the same way US service personnel are 'serving' their country, is disproven by the fact that some - like the North Vietnamese - won't take a bribe and others may take your money and continue to not be your friend.

However the problem lies not so much in the money, but with the spirit in which it's given. The Salvation Army and the US Army are the antitheses of 'aid'.

This story is almost incredible, unless one remembers that those charged with our security run the gamut of humanity from the industrious, conscientious and knowledgeable to the dull disinterested and downright dangerous. Given the pay scale for most involved the trend would be toward the latter. Leaders of industry they ain't.

Correction: that 1000 ounces of explosive the French lost works out to about 5.5 lbs much more than 5 grams - enough C4 to down an aircraft, while the 3.4 ounces in the Czech's luggage would have been enough to cause marked in cabin damage, fire or possibly serious structural failure. All modern high explosives require than a match and fuse for detonation.
The U-bomber's homemade 'junk' didn't come near that category and he was trying to inject it with what a liquid? Then trying to light it? No wonder he burned his leg.

Just a 'heads up' that the US of A sees itself above the mere squabbles of humanity. So the WCJ shouldn't even begin to think that Americans should be arraigned before it.

Somebody should remind the US representatives that Japanese claims of being non-signatory to the Hague conventions didn't stop the trials and execution of Japanese 'war criminals' for breeching its rules of humane warfare and responsibility for ruling a nation at war.

It seems that some ideas are just too dangerous to consider or discuss.

That being said, who gets to define 'dangerous'? And academically-speaking, 'Why?' That they claim to be 'academics' is self-evidently untrue.

Isn't science and academic study predicated on freedom of thought, expression and, when necessary, iconoclasm?

Nothing in this about the Chinese 'freedom' to copy and mass produce knock-offs of materials and items they're contracted to produce for US corporations.

Note to Chinese youth: Copyright censorship isn't. It's another form of 'freedom'.