New American special representative for Pakistan/Afghanistan, Richard Holbrooke, talks to the Wall Street Journal: Some people say to me, particularly after a few drinks, ‘Why don’t we go in there with our troops and just clean it up?’” he says. “First of all we can’t without their permission, and that would not be a good…
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A perfectly healthy country
War crimes? What war crimes? Military Advocate General Brig. Gen. Avichai Mendelblit on Monday instructed the Military Police Investigation unit to close the investigation into soldiers’ accounts of alleged misconduct and serious violations of the army’s rules of engagement during Operation Cast Lead. In a press release issued Monday the army said that the preliminary…