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IP: Euphoria Lost - Where next for the "kineticists"?


From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 15:07:25 -0500



http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/nation/columns/dotmil/A3233-2001Oct28.html

Taped to the normally drab tan walls of U.S. Central Command in Tampa, Florida, are pictures of the World Trade Center, a burning Pentagon, the Saudi barracks blown up by terrorists in 1996, the blasted hull of the USS Cole. "It is to remind us why we are here," says a friend of mine, a military planner working on the Afghanistan war.

One picture in particular provides him inspiration: He describes it as a September 11 shot of people franticly running down the street from the collapsing towers. "There are women without shoes on, blacks and whites, a policeman, a fireman, even a man with a turban," he says.
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