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newyorker.com - 11/18/2008
Interesting Times: George Packer: Online Only: The New Yorker
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Standing on a principle in the shape of a land mine, the U.S. military has banned Iraqi interpreters from wearing face masks. “We are a professional Army and professional units don’t conceal their identity by wearing masks,” Lieutenant Colonel Steve Stover, a military spokesman, wrote in an ...
Interesting Times: George Packer: Online Only: The New Yorker
newyorker.com - 11/15/2008
Interesting Times: George Packer: Online Only: The New Yorker
— newyorker.com — It sounds like you’re proposing classic counterinsurgency strategy: a combination of offensive and defensive military operations, political... and economic development, and diplomacy. Isn’t that what we’ve been doing these past seven years? Have we just ... (more) Interesting Times: George Packer: Online Only: The New ...

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newyorker.com - 11/18/2008
Interesting Times: George Packer: Online Only: The New Yorker
— newyorker.com — Kristol was hired on a one-year contract for what amounts to a mutual tryout…If Kristol is another... Safire, he has the chance to prove it. If not, he and the newspaper will move on, and the search will resume.”—Clark Hoyt, the Times public editor, ... (more) Interesting Times: George Packer: Online Only: The New ...

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The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — Packer is disgusted by new regulations banning Iraqi interpreters from wearing face masks to conceal their identities.

Military Changes
Taylor Marsh — ... against it. George Packer unloaded on Lieutenant Colonel Steve Stover, a military spokesman, who wrote an e-mail to the Post about the change in policy: “He expressed appreciation for the service and sacrifice of the interpreters but said those dissatisfied with the new policy ‘can seek alternative employment.’” Packer’s response in part: ...

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