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...terrorists are the microscopic weapons they have unleashed. The baby-powder- like substance in the letter opened on Capitol Hill on Oct. 15 does not respect laws and traditions such as gravity and envelopes. So authorities must not continue to abide by the old rules that put public calm before caution, process before speed...
When the fanatics who use an erroneous reading to profane their faith come to kill us, calm assurances that the Koran contains no doctrinal support for their position start sounding just a bit academic. But instead of confronting the brutal fact of religiously inspired anti-American hatred, Islam’s Western defenders limit their message to endlessly repeating that Islam, as an abstract body of thought, is blameless...
...this day, some of the kids who were involved in the fight aren’t allowed to come down. At tutoring all the kids have come from the gym and are freshly showered. They are all calm, and it is obvious that none of the tutors feel unsafe or uncomfortable. Staff members are still present in each classroom in case a problem ever arises...
...planes have intensified their bombing of Taliban front lines at Mazari al-Sharif and north of Kabul this week, while U.S. and British generals and politicians have taken to the airwaves to soothe mounting domestic fears about the apparent stalemate in Afghanistan. On balance, these calm reassurances of both the purpose and progress of the military effort may be more important to the war effort right now than the ordinance being dropped on Afghanistan, because it's clearly going to take a long war to defeat the Taliban...
...Tension is high in Peshawar as bombing raids inside Afghanistan continue. Anti-American sentiment permeates the streets and alleys. My barber whispered to me that he would prefer to come by my office to cut my hair during these next few months, or at least until things calm down a bit more. He did not want me to risk walking down the alley to his barbershop. I agreed, and expressed my concern for him and his family...