Washington, US President Barack Obama Wednesday marked the end of the Iraq war with a visit to troops at Fort Bragg in North Carolina, Xinhua reported. He said the final work for the US military to leave Iraq has been done, and the last troops will begin a final march out of that country in the next few days. Addressing the members of the 82nd Airborne and Army Special Operations, Obama said although the country the US left behind is "not a perfect place", but is nevertheless "a sovereign, stable, and self-reliant Iraq". "We are building a new partnership between our nations. And we are ending a war not with a final battle, but with a final march toward home," said the president, noting the US has done "the best" it could in Iraq. Reflecting on the heavy cost of war, Obama noted nearly 4,500 US service members died in Iraq, including 202 troops from Fort Bragg. He acknowledged the eight-and-a-half-years of war "was a source of great controversy here at home, with patriots on both sides of the debate," saying "it is harder to end a war than to begin one". As a presidential candidate, Obama campaigned on the pledge to end the Iraq war, and according to an agreement ...
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Washington, US President Barack Obama Wednesday marked the end of the Iraq war with a visit to troops at Fort Bragg in North Carolina, Xinhua reported. He said the final work for the US military to leave Iraq has been done, and the last troops will begin a final march out of that country in the next few days. Addressing the members of the 82nd Airborne and Army Special Operations, Obama said although the country the US left behind is "not a perfect place", but is nevertheless "a sovereign, stable, and self-reliant Iraq". "We are building a new partnership between our nations. And we are ending a war not with a final battle, but with a final march toward home," said the president, noting the US has done "the best" it could in Iraq. Reflecting on the heavy cost of war, Obama noted nearly 4,500 US service members died in Iraq, including 202 troops from Fort Bragg. He acknowledged the eight-and-a-half-years of war "was a source of great controversy here at home, with patriots on both sides of the debate," saying "it is harder to end a war than to begin one". As a presidential candidate, Obama campaigned on the pledge to end the Iraq war, and according to an agreement ...
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Washington, US President Barack Obama Wednesday marked the end of the Iraq war with a visit to troops at Fort Bragg in North Carolina, Xinhua reported. He said the final work for the US military to leave Iraq has been done, and the last troops will begin a final march out of that country in the next few days. Addressing the members of the 82nd Airborne and Army Special Operations, Obama said although the country the US left behind is "not a perfect place", but is nevertheless "a sovereign, stable, and self-reliant Iraq". "We are building a new partnership between our nations. And we are ending a war not with a final battle, but with a final march toward home," said the president, noting the US has done "the best" it could in Iraq. Reflecting on the heavy cost of war, Obama noted nearly 4,500 US service members died in Iraq, including 202 troops from Fort Bragg. He acknowledged the eight-and-a-half-years of war "was a source of great controversy here at home, with patriots on both sides of the debate," saying "it is harder to end a war than to begin one". As a presidential candidate, Obama campaigned on the pledge to end the Iraq war, and according to an agreement ...
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Washington, A small company in North Carolina has created a brain-controlled tool similar to electroencephalograms (EEGs) for training people to stay alert when involved in important tasks. Controlling computers – or anything else -– with the brain has been done using EEGs but they require a skullcap on the head. The system called BodyWave developed by Freer Logic (named for its founder and CEO Peter Freer) is not dissimilar to an ordinary EEG, except it works with sensors that can be put around an arm rather than the head. While it is harder to pick up signals from further away form the head, Freer told Discovery News that the signal strength per se isn’t too much of a problem. “You wouldn’t use this for clinical applications,” he said. So this wouldn’t be any good for a scientist or doctor trying to get a picture of brain activity. But it is fine when trying to detect the activity, called beta waves, that indicates attention. BodyWave can detect when someone is paying attention to something. Freer noted that the system was used to train nuclear power plant workers as well as help understand the best way to design control systems. Connected ...
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