Down below, fire commanders were waiting, hoping to use that elevator, the only working one in the building, to ferry additional firefighters back up to the heavily damaged floors.
Over the past two days, Mr. Holbrooke visited all four regional command centers in Afghanistan, and the message from all four followed similar lines: while the additional American troops, along with smaller increases from other NATO members, have had some benefit in the south, the numbers remain below what commanders need.
In the "Masked Commander," below, a Meridian Arts comic book that made its debut last month, the Masked Commander, a new hero, is the president of the United States.
Watch below to check out Stewart Jonathan Frakes (Commander William Riker, Brent Spinerr (Lieutenant Commander Data), LeVar Burton (Geordi La Forge), Michael Dorn (Worf), Diana Muldaur (Doctor Katherine Pulaski, Marina Sirtis Deanna Troi, Wil Wheaton Wesleysley), guest star Whoopi Goldberg (Guinan) and more "Star Trek" stars laughing and cursing their way through scripts.
I have written two memoranda to the Commander at Quantico (see below).
The drones can fly high overhead for hundreds of hours, chronicling the "pattern of life" below until allied commanders feel confident the site is a legitimate target.
Navy officials emphasized that Admiral Clark, like other commanders below him, had the authority to revise any findings of fault before the investigation was considered complete.
For command bunkers in Tripoli as well as Colonel Qaddafi's final hide-out in Surt, NATO increasingly relied on American Predator drones that fly high overhead for hundreds of hours, chronicling the "pattern of life" below until allied commanders feel confident the site is a legitimate target.
(Sandra Bullock and George Clooney in spacesuits, as Mission Specialist Ryan Stone and Mission Commander Matt Kowalski Ed Harriss, unseen and unnamed, as "Houston" down below).
Below are random thoughts on the manliness meters of every Commander in Chief during my lifetime.
