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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...policy of winning the hearts and minds of Iraqis going to work in a terrorist haven like Fallujah, where many of the citizens are collaborating with the extremists? Any peaceful means of conflict settlement by Americans is viewed by these brutes as weakness and emboldens them to commit even more horrible acts. If the pro-democracy forces and the West want to avoid a second Vietnam in Iraq, they need to use determination and tactics like massive aerial bombings of terrorist havens. If the terrorists are faced with the prospect of total extermination, they at least might think twice about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 11/22/2004 | See Source »

...since the morning in June when the Carbens paid two handcuff-brandishing escorts to take their 17-year-old there. Despite its bucolic appearance, Spring Creek is a specialty boarding school that uses strict behavior-modification techniques to rehabilitate troubled kids. John, whose parents made the agonizing decision to commit him to the school after he punched his mother, had made progress since his arrival. And so, like the roughly 120 other parents who gathered last month in a barnlike room near the academy's entrance, the Carbens were waiting anxiously to see their child for the first time since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: How to Save a Troubled Kid? | 11/22/2004 | See Source »

...policy of winning the hearts and minds of Iraqis going to work in a terrorist haven like Fallujah, where many of the citizens are collaborating with the extremists? Any peaceful means of conflict settlement by Americans is viewed by these brutes as weakness and emboldens them to commit even more horrible acts. If the pro-democracy forces and the West want to avoid a second Vietnam in Iraq, they need to use determination and tactics like massive aerial bombings of terrorist havens. If the terrorists are faced with the prospect of total extermination, they might think twice about their actions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 22, 2004 | 11/22/2004 | See Source »

...policy of winning the hearts and minds of Iraqis going to work in a terrorist haven like Fallujah, where many of the citizens are collaborating with the extremists? Any peaceful means of conflict settlement by Americans is viewed by those brutes as weakness and emboldens them to commit even more horrible acts. If the pro-democracy forces and the West want to avoid a second Vietnam in Iraq, they need to use determination and tactics like massive aerial bombings of terrorist havens. If the terrorists are faced with the prospect of total extermination, they at least might think twice about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 11/18/2004 | See Source »

...There is a need for society to...commit ourselves to fundamental, systematic change,” she said...

Author: By Matthew S. Lebowitz, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Two Women Win Service Awards | 11/16/2004 | See Source »

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