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As Andrew Nydegger’s symptoms progressed, his doctor tried to figure out what was wrong.
The doctor sought an answer but couldn’t find one before going on leave for a couple of weeks. A nurse practitioner took over Nydegger’s case. Nydegger, a Korean translator in the United States Air Force at the time, found the switch unsettling.
“I kind of felt that he was a major, she was a captain, and he was a doctor. She was a nurse practitioner,” Nydegger told We Are The Mighty. “I felt like I was getting downgraded in care.

Moscow Isn’t Safe For Russia’s Own Generals: Car Bomb Kills The Man Who Fed Putin’s Artillery War: At 5:30 in the morning, in a neighborhood the Russian Defense Ministry built for its own officers, a BMW X3 pulled away from a residential high-rise and exploded. The blast in the Aviatorov microdistrict of Balashikha, just east of Moscow, killed the driver within moments of him starting to move, and by the next day, Russian independent media had put a name on the body that Russian authorities still refuse to say out loud.

America And Iran Just Traded Strikes Over The Apache Helicopter. What Happens Now Decides The War: The retaliation everyone saw coming arrived on schedule, and so did the counter-retaliation. Tuesday evening, US Central Command launched what it called self-defense strikes against Iran for the downing of an Army Apache helicopter near the Strait of Hormuz, and by early Wednesday, Iran had answered with missiles and drones against American bases across the Gulf, a sequence that has jolted the fragile truce and put the entire diplomatic endgame of this war in the balance.

Most commentary from Washington this month treats the Lebanon problem as a matter of persuasion. Lean on Israel hard enough, dangle a broad enough bargain, and the strikes stop, and the diplomats finish their work.

That reading isn’t crazy. But it rests on an assumption the past two months have demolished — that Jerusalem and Washington are fighting the same war and disagree only on when to stop.

F-16I Fighter from Israel. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

They aren’t, and they don’t.

Three Ceasefires in Two Months Should Have Settled the Question
Look at what happened.