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AYMAN AL-ZAWAHIRI, Osama bin Laden's second-in-command, in a video aired last week on al-Jazeera, threatening more American casualties if the U.S. does not withdraw from Iraq...
...entertainment industry is no longer feature films and popular music. Instead it’s an extension of a conglomerate of industries stretching from advertising to technology to fashion. Nowadays, even without the success of the box office, celebrities can command a decisive presence in all facets of consumer culture. Welcome to the Paris Hilton...
...magnitude of the U.S. Bomb program suggests how ineffective a demonstration would have been.) Only after the Soviet declaration of war against Japan on Aug. 8 and the second nuclear attack on Nagasaki on Aug. 9 did Emperor Hirohito, in an exceedingly rare display of direct political command, overrule some of his own military leaders, who advocated an apocalyptic fight to the finish. Citing the unprecedented destructive power of the atom bombs, he declared, "I swallow my own tears and give my sanction to the proposal to accept the Allied proclamation"--which called for Japan's unconditional surrender...
Soldiers need clarity--direct orders, an identifiable enemy. Here they are caught between a command that makes ludicrous demands (at one point, they are ordered not to return fire when shot at because al-Jazeera is taping) and an enemy that preys on their decency, hiding behind civilians. Even personal morality gets upended. The soldier who keeps calling Arabs "sand niggers," for instance, is black...
Freeman attributes the U.S.’s earlier dominance in science and engineering to market capitalism, which gave it an economic advantage over command economies like the USSR and China. As those countries turn to market capitalism, the U.S. will begin to lose its lead, he said...