Dugan believes her military preparation improved her chances for success at Georgetown by reinforcing her natural tendency toward structure and discipline and by stressing the importance of mission.
So the delay was appropriate in a way, highlighting the importance of IRIS' mission, said Pete Worden, director of NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., which is responsible for IRIS mission operations and ground data systems.
They argued for progressive reform in the context of "a personal transcendent God... the divinity of Christ, the need of personal redemption and the importance of Christian missions".
Since she joined the Defense Ministry about a year ago, Chacón has steered it along a path that points to greater involvement by Spain in resolving overseas conflicts, emphasizing the importance of overseas missions that are not always popular with voters.
From its evangelical heritage it has affirmed a personal transcendent God, the authority of Christian experience, the divinity of Christ, the need of personal redemption, and the importance of Christian missions.
"I believe that the intelligence failure and the sense of existential uncertainty that the war brought served as important lessons for the military enterprise, the understanding of the importance of its mission, and the great responsibility that rests on our shoulders," he wrote.
Operating deep in tribal areas where suspicions of outsiders run high, the soldiers show an edginess that hints at the hazards and the importance of their mission.
He formulated a high-minded belief in the importance of his mission as a literary preservationist, which turns out to be death to literature itself.
Musharraf said he understood U.S. public opinion was against prolonging U.S. presence in Iraq, but hoped U.S. leadership could communicate the importance of the mission in Iraq.
