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In the maelstrom of insurgent attacks, revelations of prisoner abuse, allegations of contracting impropriety, and growing frustration in the United States and on the scene, the occupation, reconstruction and transfer of sovereignty in Iraq may be spinning out of control. Its become clear, however, that the US government has neither enough staff nor enough experience to conduct the occupation or rebuilding of Iraq without unprecedented levels of contractor involvement. The Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) has hired contractors to develop requirements for and oversee construction work performed by other contractors. In this confusing environment, soldiers and government employees in Iraq are having problems understanding who is in charge. Members of Congress and the American public a...
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Cmdr. James K. Crawford, a local Desert Storm veteran who held a command position overseas in the Navy Reserve, died Wednesday after being stricken by apparent cardiac distress while exercising at a gym in Bahrain, his family confirmed Thursday evening. Crawford's body is expected to arrive this weekend at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware for a military memorial service before being returned to Western New York, where he will be laid to rest, his older brother, Patrick, told The Buffalo News Thursday evening.
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PHOENIX - It finally rained here. So I washed my wife's car the next day. Out here in the desert, months can go by without rain. When rain does come to Phoenix, it falls as a mixture of water and fine dirt particles, splattering dirt circles all over a car. Another recent day, the wind picked up overnight and blew hard by morning. As I drove to work at the local community college, I drove through ground-level clouds of blowing dirt.
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Set during the first Gulf War, Towelhead tells the story of 13-year-old Jasira, whose curse is to be both prematurely "developed" and the off-spring of two profoundly idiotic parents. The novel begins with Jasira as she moves from her Irish-American mother's home in Syracuse to her Lebanese father's house in Houston under less than ideal circumstances. As she explains, "My mother's boyfriend got a crush on me so she sent me to live with Daddy. So Jasira goes to school, takes a job baby-sitting the boy next door and exists in a state of bored, emotional starvation. When her mother calls, she's often less interested in Jasira than in using her daughter to get back at her ex-husband. [Alicia Erian] has a wonderfully subtle way of crafting believable scenarios in which life just rains ston...
