but necessary sense, they were."You don't want combat soldiers to be foolish or to jump the gun, but their job is to destroy the enemy, and one way they're able to do that is to see it as a game, so that the people don't seem real," said Bret A. Moore, a former Army psychologist and co-author of the forthcoming book "Wheels Down: Adjusting to Life After Deployment."Military training is fundamentally an exercise in overcoming a fear of killing another human, said Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, author of the book "On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society," who is a former Army Ranger.

The idiot writes, "Likewise, ____ notes that the reporters who were killed knew the dangers when they signed up forPrior to the start of the war, Iraq was a secular state. The US government decided that the people would fall into line most quickly if they were terrorized by thugs which meant turning the country over to the fundamentalists. It's no surprise, in any country, that the fundamentalist would target secular forces. Karim Altaaii contributes an essay entitled "Send In the Professors" to today's New York Times:

The national economic disaster hit the city of Braddock Pennsylvanialike a wrecking ball. But Braddock Mayor John Fetterman -- dubbed"America's Coolest Mayor" by The New York Times -- is taking veryunconventional approaches to reinventing the town and re-inspiring itsresidents. Home to the nation's first A&P supermarket and AndrewCarnegie's first steel mill, Braddock is being revitalized with newyouth and art programs, renovations