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This bold change in American policy has been met with trepidation and concern about brash use of force. But the U.S. would not have needed to resort to force had Iraq disarmed or had the international community been willing to help combat this clear threat. U.N. refusal to acknowledge the threat did not diminish it; U.S. action...
...that one shot won’t kill you but a whole bottle of Jack Daniels might, or that drinking on an empty stomach is a dangerous enterprise—then there would be a marked decrease in first-year alcohol abuse. A brief, rudimentary education program could also combat habitual over-consumption; once students know the danger signs, such as drinking heavily four or five days a week, they might be able to avoid the problem themselves or seek help for friends and roommates when they observe dangerous signs...
...director of the Executive Session on Domestic Preparedness at the KSG, Howitt penned a Boston Globe op-ed on Sept. 17, 2001 charging that the nation must develop an effective emergency preparedness system in order to combat future terror attacks...
While many Americans are frustrated by the high costs of college, legislation limiting tuition increases is not the way to combat it; McKeon’s proposal would likely hamper the quality of American higher education. By targeting only tuition increases, McKeon is missing half of the story—fast tuitions increases at select private and state schools over the last 50 years has been coupled with tuition decreases at the less expensive community colleges. This cost dispersion has made colleges more heterogeneous—widening the spectrum of schools from which students can choose the most appropriate...
...lesson intended by Washington - Iraq has also provided a harsh reality check on the limits of preemptive regime-change. America is chafing under the burden of its decision to go to war without international authorization. Occupying an unruly Iraq looks set to tie down half of the active-duty combat personnel of the U.S. military for months, or even years to come, and the price-tag for the war is $166 billion and counting. Absent some major act of aggression by either North Korea or Iran, a President seeking reelection is unlikely to ask an increasingly anxious nation to commit...