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...Xbox 360 version, Call of Duty 2, the game play is a startling leap forward. You can run around at random like the battle-panicked infantryman you are, surrounded by hundreds of your fully realized, equally panicked brothers in arms. You can accomplish your goals (or die trying) in whatever order seems expedient: no more invisible barriers. Clouds of dust and smoke float up and block the sun, interfering with the ambient light--war is finally getting its fog. The chaos is astonishingly visceral: you're Joe Grunt, playing your little part in vast events that are beyond your puny...
Sitting around a circular glass table at his trendy Tel Aviv advertising firm, Adler Chomsky & Warshawsky, Adler asked Sharon what he wanted to accomplish as Prime Minister. "I believe that only I can bring peace," Sharon replied. That was enough for Adler to work with. He and a team of Sharon advisers, including p.r. man Eyal Arad and U.S.-based political strategist Arthur Finkelstein, focused the campaign not on the hawkish-sounding theme of security but on peace. They produced a bumper sticker--ONLY SHARON CAN BRING PEACE (it kind of rhymes in Hebrew)--and TV ads with soft music...
...SHARON: I didn't betray them. Look, we had a dream. We haven't managed to accomplish all the dream. I know it's very painful, very hard...
...SHARON: Once we accomplish the withdrawal and there is complete quiet, terrorist organizations should be dismantled, their weapons should be collected, there should be reforms of the Palestinian Authority-mostly in their security apparatus, but not only in security-once that will happen then we will move to the Road Map. We are committed to the Road Map. The Palestinians committed themselves to the Road Map. But I'll tell you in this part of the world, it's different. Declarations, promises, speeches, even signing agreements all are meaningless. Only acts are meaningful. I am ready to make painful compromises...
...individual, meaningful relationship with a higher power is immaterial. The point is that many Americans have a faith they are devoted to and derive their values from. The result is that when many Americans talk about their vision of what America should be and what American politics should accomplish, these ideas are largely influenced by religion and conceived of in religious vocabulary. If the Left is incapable of conversing in the language of religion and presenting values consistent with social justice as religiously-informed values, it will consistently alienate Americans who primarily understand the world in those ways...