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...Feeling the Heat Could the Bush administration have done more to combat terrorism before 9/11 [April 5]? The answer is a resounding yes! Unfortunately, that is also true for every American state and city as well as for governments around the world. No investigative commission can undo 9/11, but we have a chance to thwart other attacks. That's where the world's time, money and manpower should be directed. I wish the U.S. would lead that effort and not use valuable resources to second-guess what happened leading up to 9/11. Ronald Erickson Downers Grove...
...delay in handing Iraqis a semblance of sovereignty. But June's transfer of power to whatever government ultimately takes shape looks increasingly like a symbolic event. As long as anticoalition forces maintain control over parts of the country, U.S. commanders have no choice but to keep troops on a combat footing. Although the violence in Iraq diminished somewhat last week, neither the U.S. military nor Iraqi intelligence sources believe that is likely to last long. A senior Iraqi intelligence source says flatly that the cycle of violence will escalate, not diminish, in the weeks ahead, according to his agency...
Could the Bush administration have done more to combat terrorism before 9/11 [April 5]? The answer is a resounding yes! Unfortunately, that is also true for governments of other countries. No investigative commission can undo 9/11, but we have a chance to thwart other attacks. That's where our time, money and manpower should be directed. I wish the U.S. would lead that effort and not use valuable resources to second-guess what happened leading up to 9/11. RONALD ERICKSON Downers Grove...
...from the Horn of Africa to the Himalayas. An Arabic speaker of Lebanese descent, he won the U.S. military's most difficult job last July. Although troops embrace Abizaid's muddy-boots mien, his soft-spoken demeanor gives him a cerebral air more common to the campus than to combat. The roots of terrorism "certainly don't lend themselves easily to military solutions," Abizaid says over breakfast. He knows that winning the peace in Iraq will be far more difficult than winning the war. Patience, Abizaid thinks, is an ally of the enemy. "We think in terms of sound bites...
...parties that are largely straight, girls tell me I smell good and I survive. It’s easy to regard queer events as part of a positive and necessary movement without actually attending or supporting them, but it’s not nearly enough to combat the sometimes blatant homophobia on campus...