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...Saber rattling to press Syria to modify its behavior is not something any one at State would likely disagree with. But Gingrich seems bent upon pursuing regime-change in Syria - a proposition that might have considerable appeal in Washington, but would horrify even those allies that worked with the U.S. in Iraq, starting with Britain. A related State Department transgression, for Gingrich, is that its "invention of a quartet for Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations defies everything the United States has learned about France, Russia, and the United Nations. After the bitter lessons of the last five months, it is unimaginable...
British single “Out Of Time” brings forth a familiar anti-war bent as Albarn laments “Too many people down / Everything turning the wrong way around” over chiming guitar...
...horror film could be subtitled When Smart People Do Stupid Things. In a haunted house, they run up into the attic. In Dreamcatcher, Lee gets off the damn seat. Ka-bloom! Out pops a big, toothy worm with a bigger appetite. It's part of an outer-space colony bent on making all humans food for worms...
What is it with France? It is one thing to oppose American policy on Iraq. Germany, China and many others have done so. France, however, has gone beyond mere opposition. France has been bent on organizing a worldwide coalition--a coalition of the unwilling--to stop the U.S., not just lining up other major powers like Russia but even sending its Foreign Minister on a tour of Africa to persuade three members of the U.N. Security Council to vote against the U.S. and ensure an American defeat...
...fuzzy thinking of the antiwar side makes it impossible for my head to follow. Hauerwas' recommendation that we ask "Iraqi Christians what we can do to make their lives more bearable" does not address the central issue of weapons of mass destruction in the hands of a ruthless dictator bent on territorial expansion. Hauerwas' assertion that the 9/11 attacks were not an act of war but acts of murder is similarly woolly. If the attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center were not an act of war, I don't know what is. JANET LAWSON Concord, Mass...