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...seething hatred in the Middle East has been festering for far too long. The rich and powerful nations of the world must band together under the banner of the U.N. and act to stop the carnage once...
...change only in the cast. In place of the ersatz Western religions of fascism and communism, radical Islam, bastard child of a real and great religion, has arisen. Led by two rival Vaticans, one in Tehran and the other cavebound on the Afghan-Pakistani border, it raises the banner of a militant religion that will not rest until, as al-Zawahiri pledged, Islam has retaken every piece of Waqf "from Spain to Iraq...
...exactly subtle. Images of despair flash by: the coffins, soldiers near a burning car, Katrina victims at the Superdome, a gas-price sign. A red banner appears--red evil! Red scary!--reading, THINGS HAVE TAKEN A TURN FOR THE WORSE. We see Vice President Dick Cheney baring his teeth as if to take a bite out of a baby. Then a blue banner emerges--blue good! Blue safe!--as DCCC chairman Rahm Emanuel talks to cops and a toddler smiles in a swing. The caption assures us, BUT AMERICA IS STRONG ENOUGH TO CHANGE...
...months, the Chávez movement has run up against opposition from forces that view it as wrongheaded, militaristic and undemocratic. In Mexico's election, as in Peru's last month, Chávez turned out to be more of a liability than an asset to the leftist candidate carrying his banner...
...Palestinian militants since June 25, she is instantly empathetic. "We know Israelis love their children just as we do," she says softly. The Shalit family's love for Gilad is indeed palpable in the northern Israeli town of Hila, where his parents, Noam and Aviva, live and where a banner hangs reading gilad: we are waiting for you at home. Noam, a compact man with close-cropped white hair and blue eyes, has no sympathy for the actions of the militants of Hamas or the Popular Resistance Committee, but he is keenly aware that the current military operation in Gaza...