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...While NATO's support improves the U.S. striking power and widens political and diplomatic consent for any counterstrike, the crucial allies in the battle against Bin Laden remain the governments and security services of the Islamic world - because it is intelligence, rather than air power or armor, that wins the war on terrorism...
...Pentagon chief, Rumsfeld has managed to spook the military, alienate defense contractors, mobilize much of Capitol Hill against him--and even make some in the White House question his toughness. It's usually a Democrat who puts the Pentagon on a wartime footing, but Rumsfeld, 69, is an armor-plated Republican and a military man to boot (he served as a Navy pilot). He has stirred up these problems by launching a much needed but oddly secretive review of the U.S. military that until last week threatened to sink ships, ground planes and retire soldiers in order to reduce...
...live in Europe and North America been so prosperous, so safe, so free to wander the world, so richly endowed with the wonderful toys of high technology. Why, beyond the boredom that comfort always brings, have a few thousand self-styled anarchists decided to don face masks and body armor? Why fight...
...from that sometimes because people don't know what to make of someone so forthright. They feel as if they want to protect her. But she is a real survivor, and the key to her success as an artist is that she has managed to survive without putting the armor...
...president also has to tend to conservative members in his own party. Republican senators are drafting dozens of amendments to pick apart the Democrats' measure. "It's going to be hit by armor-piercing incendiaries," vows GOP conservative Phil Gramm. White House aides laugh at Gramm's colorful opposition, but conservatives are angry about a series of administration apostasies on education, taxes and defense. There is no great rush to give Dashcle his first victory. But the White House knows that passage may mean fighting through a filibuster threat from members of its own party...