1.   Although Western experts have been vocal about what the military is doing wrong, few efforts are under way to help the Macedonians do it right.

2.   And the military can do whatever they want to do there.

3.   Blair met with Leahy this week in an effort to ease some of his concerns that the Indonesian military had done little to reform.

4.   But heading off further humanitarian disaster is a job the U.S. military can do well.

5.   But the military did nothing.

6.   But what would the military do with this power?

7.   But while parts of civilian America clung resolutely to segregation, the military did not.

8.   Despite assurances that the military is doing everything it can to prevent accidents, planes and helicopters keep falling from the sky for the same reasons.

9.   Defense Department officials described the road construction as an example of doing for Americans what the U.S. military often does in foreign countries where troops are stationed.

10.   Either way, they risk losing the confidence and respect of the American people, just as the U.S. military did after the Vietnam War.