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MILITARY ADVERTISES FOR RECRUITS ON GAY WEBSITE

USA TODAY - The Army, Navy and Air Force unwittingly advertised for
recruits on a website for gays, who are barred from military service if
they are open about their sexual orientation. When informed Tuesday by
USA Today that they were advertising on GLEE.com, a networking website
for gay professionals, recruiters expressed surprise and said they would
remove the job listings.

"This is the first I've heard about it," said Maj. Michael Baptista,
advertising branch chief for the Army National Guard, which will spend
$6.5 million on Internet recruiting this year. "We didn't knowingly
advertise on that particular website," which he said does not "meet the
moral standards" of the military. . .

Most of the military jobs posted were hard-to-fill positions requiring
advanced training, although some ads sought to fill core combat slots at
a time when the Iraq war has challenged recruiters to meet goals.

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[50 years ago last summer, your editor covered his first story in
Washington. Throughout the year, the Review will exhume some of his
writings]

THERE seems to be some confusion in Washington these days as to the
nature of victory. To help the Beltway discourse, the Review provides
some handy hints to determine whether you've won or lost:

- If, in the course of battle, you not only destroy your enemy but
greatly harm yourself, as well as the people whom you are purportedly
rescuing, that is not a victory but a disaster.

- If you are content to cause great damage to your opponent without
regard to its effect on yourself, that is not a victory but a pathology
typical, for example, of suicide bombers.

- If, upon capturing a city, you or your allies proceed to summarily
execute almost as many people as were killed in the initial effort, that
is not a victory but reason for shame and a hint that you should do
better in selecting your allies.

- If you attack a country without obeying the rules of the United
Nations, that is not a victory but an international crime.

- If you leave the place you are liberating filled with dead bodies,
unexploded bomblets, and depleted uranium, that is not victory but
brutality.

- If you destroy your own liberty for the sake of revenge, that is not
victory but masochism and should be treated rather than applauded.

- If the country you're bombing has a gross national product equal to
less than what it would cost us to fight there for two years, you didn't
win much and might have done better using the money in some other way.

- If, despite the fall of various places, you are still worried about
suitcase nukes, stinger missiles, plane hijackings, anthrax attacks,
mass smallpox, and one billion Muslims, that is not victory, but
approximately the same problem you had before these places fell.

- If you don't decide who the enemy is until after you've start
fighting, that's a sign you might have thought about it all a bit more
first.

- If you are still scared to visit a big city, fly in a plane, sit in a
crowded stadium or open your mail, you have not won regardless of what
you have captured.

- If, thanks to the policies of your government and the enemies it has
created, you can no longer travel, act, or speak in the manner of free
Americans over the past two centuries, that is not a victory but the
deepest of tragedies. - Sam Smith, November 2001


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