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...more of everything--more peacekeepers and mine clearers and border guards--any illusion that America could spray peace and democracy throughout the Middle East and then quickly fly home will have vanished as well. Even those who opposed taking the battle to Iraq now have to accept that there is no turning back, and those who advanced the battle are forced to admit that true victory will take more time, cost more lives and consume more treasure than they had ever reckoned. Two years on, the global war on terrorism is more global and in some ways more terrifying because...
Saudi proselytizers are also interested in Muslims in the U.S. and other Western countries. Says Antoine Sfeir, the Lebanese-born editor of the Parisian quarterly Notebooks of the East: "Their message to Muslims in Europe and America is so extreme and intolerant: 'Do not accept their ways, and do not consider yourself as one of them. You only exist as a Muslim, respecting Muslim values alone...
...North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)--and he has now slid into cynical, extremist threats of tariffs against those countries that do not meet America's environmental and labor standards. When Joe Lieberman attacked this new position in last week's debate, Dean modified it again, saying he would accept international standards, which are weaker than American ones. Most of Dean's rivals seem to be wandering down the same path. (John Kerry, a career free trader, is suddenly open to renegotiating the existing deals.) There are extravagant lamentations over the decline in manufacturing, which accounts for the lion...
Those who find themselves in an offside position should accept a free kick against them...
...upper hand. We are fighting terrorists, pursuing them everywhere, closing the net on them. The government has arrested many of the ulema. The war, as the Crown Prince said, is a war against those who wage it, who encourage it, who support it, and even those who tacitly accept it. If there are in the pulpits of the mosques those who urge violence, they are removed immediately. In the schools, the books have been changed for the new school year. The instructions to the teachers have been changed. The [terrorist] money aspect is now completely controlled and your government knows...