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Western intellectuals are so blinded by post-imperial guilt,

So what exactly are noncombat troops?

Whatever you want them to be. The distinction is more political than military.

More than 90,000 classified documents on the Afghanistan war have been released on Wikileaks. Read stories about the documents here.

A discussion has been started at cross-x.com  PD's files available here.

Deterrence

Glenn Greenwald @ Salon.com...All of this underscores, yet again, that Terrorism is simultaneously the single most meaningless and most manipulated word in the American political lexicon.

Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially reduce its military and/or police presence in one or more of the following: South Korea, Japan, Afghanistan, Kuwait, Iraq, Turkey.  Topic Paper