Barely five years after George W. Bush considered (supposedly) an attack on its offices, Al-Jazeera's English service is the channel of choice on American military television sets in Afghanistan.

乔治·w·布什甚至曾考虑过(据称)袭击其办公室，仅仅时隔五年，美国阿富汗驻军的军用电视机上收看的都是半岛电视台英文节目。

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But in 2010 Discovery cut off access to some of the most popular channels, including Animal Planet and the Military Channel, saying Sky Angel violated its contract by distributing them over the Internet.

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It is also one of the very few places that could plausibly field a successor to the venerable M113 troop carrier, which the Military Channel recently designated as the most important infantry vehicle in history.

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At least, not at the national level members of Congress routinely channel military funds to their constituents in the hopes of bolstering local economies.

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