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...reckoning, the libertarians won none of them. My favorite moment came when Jerry Taylor of the Cato Institute began pacing behind the podium, pulling his chin as he realized that his "let the market decide" rhetoric wasn't going over very well against former CIA Director Jim Woolsey's argument that, as a matter of national security, the U.S. government should support hybrid technology and alternative fuels. Taylor actually proposed that the poverty and dissatisfaction such a policy might cause in places like Saudi Arabia might create more terrorists...
...Terror has been a monumental strategic mistake. But there was little sympathy for figuring out an intelligent way to disengage from Iraq and refocus attention on the broader conflict. My esteemed colleague William Kristol, whose latest column appears on the next page, easily won the crowd with his argument favoring Bush's New Way Forward in Iraq, though not without a few bumps. Kristol, normally an impeccable debater, seemed boggled by this simple question from the audience: "How do we know if we're winning or losing? Whose side are we on in Iraq?" Kristol detoured into the Korean...
...amount of argument can prove or disprove the existence of God. Heaven and Hell exist on earth-those who live in either of those places know it. God or divinity is in the heart of every living creature. If you can't feel it, forget it. Manohar L. Karwall Jalandhar, India...
...Enduring Argument Bravo for your insightful "God Vs. Science" debate between Richard Dawkins and Francis Collins [Jan. 15]. The discussion is not only important to Christians but to humans of other faiths as well. How can you compare God with science, which is merely a way of analyzing material things? Darwin's theory of evolution doesn't contradict the existence of a Supreme Being, since time and space have no relevance to God-our billion years could be a single moment to him. I disagree with Dawkins' assertion that science doesn't deal with metaphysics. Science is not in competition...
...author or authors (up to three), and not an organization nor under a pseudonym. Letters that are brief, timely, and perhaps witty or humorous, are more likely to be published. Good letters engage the subject without preamble, make their point quickly, and generally limit their scope to a single argument. If you’re interested in writing a more extended argument, consider submitting...