2012年5月14日星期一
Don't Tell
Michael Langston, louis vuitton sunglasses a Baptist minister who served as commander of 110 military chaplains in Afghanistan, didn't carry a weapon but often visited the front lines. "I would go to trauma centers where they worked on soldiers who were burned and disfigured," he said. "We'd roll into villages where every man, woman and child had been massacred, and the Taliban had cut off heads and feet."
Back in the U.S., Langston, 57, suffered nightmares and sweats. Always a mild-mannered man, he began yelling at his kids. When a vehicle backfired in a supermarket parking lot, "I hit the ground and rolled under a car." He was diagnosed with PTSD.
Looking back, Langston, a graduate of the Naval War louis vuitton sunglasses 2012 College, sees "a failed policy. When we leave, these places go back to the way they've done everything for thousands of years."
For all his frustration over military interventions, Langston said the election issues for him are “healthcare, jobs and economic stability.” A lifelong Republican, he voted for Gingrich in the primary but now supports Romney. "The economy is still faltering, the job rate has not gotten any better regardless of the hype, and the gas prices are killing us," he said.
Overall, like the rest of the nation, former soldiers are deeply www.louisvuitonbagsshop.com concerned about the future. Only 24 percent in the Reuters poll said the country is headed in the right direction, with 60 percent saying it is off on the wrong track.
Langston said social issues will not influence his vote. As for "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," the now repealed policy that forced homosexuals out of the military, he came around to supporting repeal after initially opposing it. "An individual has a right to be who they are," he said.
According to the Reuters/Ipsos poll, a majority of veterans now agree with him.
With the unpredictability of foreign involvements and the fragility burberry kids outwear of the domestic economy, it is too early to say who will eventually win the veteran vote.
Karen Grafton, who voted for Obama in 2008 based on his promise to end the Iraq war, now says, "I want someone to get us out of this economic turmoil. That's No. 1. I'm not sure he is the person to do that. But I don't blame him. He inherited a mess."
Asked about Obama's handling of his job, 27 percent of veterans approved, and 37 percent disapproved, with the rest undecided.
In his study, below a movie poster of "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly," McDowell, the Ron Paul supporter, flipped through pages of an 82nd Airborne Division yearbook, lingering on photographs of dead comrades. He recalled their ages, how many children they had, and www.designerburberrystore.com how they died.
2012年3月19日星期一
He Said WHAT?
Romney’s team is pushing hard to win the Midwest gucci handbags industrial state to claim its delegates and crowing rights as the only contender capable of winning swing states Republicans will need in the fall.
“I’m not an economic lightweight — President Obama is,” Romney told voters at Charlie Parker’s Diner in Springfield.
“We’re not going to be successful in replacing an economic lightweight with another economic lightweight,” Romney said, circling back to bash Santorum.
“We’re going to have to replace him with someone who knows how to run this economy,” he added, sticking with his trump card .
An American Research Group poll released Monday showed Romney leading Santorum by 14 points and Public Policy Polling had him ahead by 15.
But Romney’s camp has repeatedly seen double-digit poll leads evaporate, and sources with the campaign put more stock in a Chicago Tribune/WGN poll that has Romney’s lead a mere four points.
Santorum spent the day trying to capitalize on what his camp called Romney’s enthusiasm gap, painting the former Massachusetts governor as a multimillionaire venture capitalist unable to connect with ordinary, working Americans.
“I heard Gov. Romney here called me an economic black gucci belt lightweight because I wasn’t a Wall Street financier like he was,” Santorum said in Rockford.
“Do you really believe that this country wants to elect a Wall Street financier as the President of the United States?” Santorum asked, claiming Romney “bailed out” his friends at the banks “at the expense of America.”
But he baffled his opponents by focusing his campaign speeches in Illinois on his social conservative cred, more than his ability to fix the economy.
“The issue of this race is not the economy,” but issues such as the President’s health care program, Santorum told one crowd.
During a television appearance Santorum went on to say the unemployment rate was not a key talking point either — prompting a gleeful response from the Romney machine.
“He Said WHAT?!” was the subject line of an attack e-mail showing the snippet of the television video in which Santorum said: “I don’t care what the unemployment rate’s going to be. Doesn’t matter to me.”
Santorum, though, is working from a disadvantage.
He has already forfeited 10 of the state’s 69 delegates by failing to place his supporters on some ballots, an organizational failing that also happened louis vuitton sunglasses in Ohio and Virginia.
“I’m not an economic lightweight — President Obama is,” Romney told voters at Charlie Parker’s Diner in Springfield.
“We’re not going to be successful in replacing an economic lightweight with another economic lightweight,” Romney said, circling back to bash Santorum.
“We’re going to have to replace him with someone who knows how to run this economy,” he added, sticking with his trump card .
An American Research Group poll released Monday showed Romney leading Santorum by 14 points and Public Policy Polling had him ahead by 15.
But Romney’s camp has repeatedly seen double-digit poll leads evaporate, and sources with the campaign put more stock in a Chicago Tribune/WGN poll that has Romney’s lead a mere four points.
Santorum spent the day trying to capitalize on what his camp called Romney’s enthusiasm gap, painting the former Massachusetts governor as a multimillionaire venture capitalist unable to connect with ordinary, working Americans.
“I heard Gov. Romney here called me an economic black gucci belt lightweight because I wasn’t a Wall Street financier like he was,” Santorum said in Rockford.
“Do you really believe that this country wants to elect a Wall Street financier as the President of the United States?” Santorum asked, claiming Romney “bailed out” his friends at the banks “at the expense of America.”
But he baffled his opponents by focusing his campaign speeches in Illinois on his social conservative cred, more than his ability to fix the economy.
“The issue of this race is not the economy,” but issues such as the President’s health care program, Santorum told one crowd.
During a television appearance Santorum went on to say the unemployment rate was not a key talking point either — prompting a gleeful response from the Romney machine.
“He Said WHAT?!” was the subject line of an attack e-mail showing the snippet of the television video in which Santorum said: “I don’t care what the unemployment rate’s going to be. Doesn’t matter to me.”
Santorum, though, is working from a disadvantage.
He has already forfeited 10 of the state’s 69 delegates by failing to place his supporters on some ballots, an organizational failing that also happened louis vuitton sunglasses in Ohio and Virginia.
2012年3月9日星期五
Amos, speaking in Turkey
Assad “is very much in charge,” said a senior U.S. intelligence www.discount-louisvuitton-store.com official responsible for tracking the conflict, adding that Assad and his inner circle seem convinced that the rebellion is being driven by external foes and that they are equipped to withstand all but a large-scale military intervention.
“That leadership is going to fight very hard,” the official said. Over the long term, “the odds are against them,” he said, “but they are going to fight very hard.”
The comments, provided by three intelligence officials on the condition of anonymity to share candid assessments, were the most detailed to date by U.S. analysts on the status of the uprising, which began last March.
The officials said the regime’s tactics have taken a more aggressive turn, and newly declassified satellite images released Friday show what officials described as “indiscriminate” artillery damage to schools, mosques and other facilities in the beleaguered city of Homs in recent weeks.
Overall, they described Syria as a formidable military power, with 330,000 active-duty soldiers, surveillance drones supplied by Iran and a dense network louis vuitton sunglasses of air defense installations that would make it difficult for the United States or other powers to establish a no-fly zone.
“This is an army that was built for a land war with the Israelis,” said a second senior U.S. intelligence official. After the regime hesitated to attack civilian population centers earlier in the conflict, its “restraint .?.?. has been lifted,” the official said.
Syrian forces continued their month-long shelling of the opposition stronghold of Homs, in the west-central part of the country, on Friday, according to news reports. Thousands demonstrated in other parts of the country in anticipation of the scheduled arrival of Kofi Annan, the special envoy of the United Nations and Arab League, in Damascus on Saturday. He is expected to meet with Assad.
U.N. humanitarian chief Valerie Amos, who visited Homs this week, said she was “devastated” by what she saw in the ravaged city. “There are no people left,” she said.
Amos, speaking in Turkey after visiting refugee camps along the Syrian border, said the Assad government had agreed to a “limited assessment” of humanitarian needs but had refused “unhindered” access for aid organizations and “asked for more time” to Louis Vuitton handbags consider U.N. proposals for extended assistance for civilians.
“That leadership is going to fight very hard,” the official said. Over the long term, “the odds are against them,” he said, “but they are going to fight very hard.”
The comments, provided by three intelligence officials on the condition of anonymity to share candid assessments, were the most detailed to date by U.S. analysts on the status of the uprising, which began last March.
The officials said the regime’s tactics have taken a more aggressive turn, and newly declassified satellite images released Friday show what officials described as “indiscriminate” artillery damage to schools, mosques and other facilities in the beleaguered city of Homs in recent weeks.
Overall, they described Syria as a formidable military power, with 330,000 active-duty soldiers, surveillance drones supplied by Iran and a dense network louis vuitton sunglasses of air defense installations that would make it difficult for the United States or other powers to establish a no-fly zone.
“This is an army that was built for a land war with the Israelis,” said a second senior U.S. intelligence official. After the regime hesitated to attack civilian population centers earlier in the conflict, its “restraint .?.?. has been lifted,” the official said.
Syrian forces continued their month-long shelling of the opposition stronghold of Homs, in the west-central part of the country, on Friday, according to news reports. Thousands demonstrated in other parts of the country in anticipation of the scheduled arrival of Kofi Annan, the special envoy of the United Nations and Arab League, in Damascus on Saturday. He is expected to meet with Assad.
U.N. humanitarian chief Valerie Amos, who visited Homs this week, said she was “devastated” by what she saw in the ravaged city. “There are no people left,” she said.
Amos, speaking in Turkey after visiting refugee camps along the Syrian border, said the Assad government had agreed to a “limited assessment” of humanitarian needs but had refused “unhindered” access for aid organizations and “asked for more time” to Louis Vuitton handbags consider U.N. proposals for extended assistance for civilians.
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