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...took the British navy the better part of 50 years to close down the Atlantic slave trade. If Bush is serious, he has laid upon his successors a task hardly less demanding than the one he has adopted for himself. In just such fashion did Harry Truman in 1947 commit his nation to a 40-year-long cold war against totalitarian communism...
...Americans favor some sort of military action against those responsible for the attacks. Whether we like it or not, this overwhelming support guarantees that action will be taken—should President Bush ignore such demands for a forceful response and eschew military strikes, he and his party will commit certain political suicide. Those students demanding absolute nonviolence at this time turn a blind eye to the vicissitudes of policy-making in a democracy and merely make their voices all the easier to ignore...
...that we have seen against Arabs and Muslims in this past week (but for some reason, it is more acceptable to apply them to gender than race or religion). Most men don’t fly planes into buildings either; and, while 98 percent of violent crimes may be committed by men, the majority of men don’t commit violent crimes...
...campus was divided on whether U.S. law should be changed to allow the government to seek out and assassinate people in foreign countries who commit terrorist attacks in the U.S. and elsewhere. Fifty percent of those polled were in favor of changing the law, while 39 percent were...
...terrorist" either. "Islam means peace," says Maulana Said Palanpuri, the school's Arabic professor. "There are people who distort God's teaching and we condemn them. But why do people in the West use the term Islamic terrorist and not Christian terrorist or Jewish terrorist when Christian and Jews commit atrocities...