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How America's SWAT Team Helped Swat Saddam

June 2003

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BIRD'S EYE
Rise Up, Return, Rebuild
By Radek Sikorski
The U.S. will soon be involved in rebuilding Iraq. Here's what we can learn from earlier experiences in Europe.

SIDELIGHTS
News Scraps
Porn war. Lefties smash 9/11 memorial. Free socks. GPS bombs destroy GPS jammers.

SCAN
Short News and Commentary
Pat Moynihan, RIP. The case for national I.D. cards. Hope for Chechnya? Criminals play the tort-case lotto. A conservative answer to MacArthur.

INDICATORS
Numbers, etc.
Edited by Karl Zinsmeister, Eli Lehrer
A capitalist majority. Are the poor fed to death? Highways get safer and safer.

"LIVE" WITH TAE
Judith Martin
Judith Martin, America's leading authority on manners and etiquette, has advised Americans on politeness for over a quarter century. Here she talks about smoking, Europe, class relations, cell phones, and the South.

POLITICO
The New Fifth Column
By Grover Norquist
Supporters of West European socialism, not fundamentalist Islam or communist China, will lead the new fifth column in America.

BOOK TALK
Reviews of New Books
Naomi Schaefer on Voucher Wars: Waging the Legal Battle Over School Choice by Clint Bolick / Courtney Richard on Feminist Fantasies by Phyllis Schlafly / John Attarian on Multiculturalism and the Politics of Guilt: Toward a Secular Theocracy by Paul Gottfried

NOW PLAYING
Beat the Summer Movie Hype
By Josh Larsen
Like the blazing summer sun, the media and marketing blitz surrounding Hollywood's hottest season can be searing.

OPINION PULSE
The Latest Public Opinion Data
Terror-war polling. Americans are ready for the long haul.

THE MAIL
Reader Feedback
Readers' thoughts on affirmative action, vouchers, and the United Nations.

Feature articles

Dust and Stars
By Karl Zinsmeister
After a remarkable five weeks spent in combat with one of America's pre-eminent fighting units, TAE editor in chief Karl Zinsmeister presents vivid snapshots direct from the front lines of the battles in the Middle East, mixed with ruminations on military culture, American distinctiveness, the martial spirit, and the nature of war.