EMPHASIZING ETHICS EVEN AS BULLETS FLY

摘要

BAGHDAD—Soldiers and marines have long joked darkly that their job is pretty simple: Kill people and break things. In Iraq, a broken country wracked by insurgency and sectarian violence, the mission of the American forces presents a far more complex predicament. Given the damage and killing that inevitably accompany war, how do you fight in a way that allows the construction of a peaceful nation?