Here is a primer, culled from the diverse views of administration officials and military analysts, on the military utility of some of the force options before the president to bolster the 68,000 American troops already in Afghanistan.
Military officials in Washington and in Germany, who are readying force options for Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and Mr. Bush, said preparations for Liberia continued today, but that no troops had been alerted for possible action.
Train cops to choose non-deadly force options.
"If you don't have intermediate force options, the next step is deadly force.
Both officers were equipped with less-lethal force options, per department policy, according to a statement issued Monday by the Seattle Police Department.
"To assume that an officer does not consider all other reasonable force options, including de-escalation and less-lethal options, before resorting to deadly force, is inaccurate," Assistant Chief Marc Coopwood of Beverly Hills Police Department, who serves as president of the California Peace Officers Association, wrote in a statement.
A related objection is that James does not appear to take account of the possibility of "partial beliefs," and that doing so undermines his notion of a forced option.
"At no point in any of the training I've ever taken has anyone ever advocated as a use-of-force option to throw things at the person," Forcillo said.
"What started off with providing a simple search service has us now concerned with influencing customer decision-making by forcing options on them, something that is against our core DNA," wrote Subramanya Sharma, Cleartrip's chief marketing officer.
