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...image of Adolf Hitler and an almost identical X. I wonder if it is legitimate to compare al-Zarqawi with Hitler, the latter having far exceeded al-Zarqawi in his crimes against humanity. But then, it is a blessing that al-Zarqawi has been stopped before such a comparison really could be legitimate. Simon Nicholas Cologne, Germany...
...Karzai and the 26,000 allied troops in Afghanistan for failing to strengthen institutions like the police. In Kandahar, Asadullah Khalid, the governor, is desperate to counter Taliban propaganda with a more robust police force. He estimates that he has only 40 officers for every 100,000 citizens. (By comparison, New York City has 40 officers for every 8,000 civilians.) He says he has petitioned Karzai's government for funding for a larger police force but says he has received little response. The police situation in Kandahar province is emblematic of the country as a whole. That there...
...image of Adolf Hitler and an almost identical X. I wonder if it is legitimate to compare al-Zarqawi with Hitler, the latter having far exceeded al-Zarqawi in his crimes against humanity. But then, it is a blessing that al-Zarqawi has been stopped before such a comparison really could be legitimate. Simon Nicholas Cologne, Germany Al-Zarqawi appeared at a time that enabled him to establish his reputation. Anyone who succeeds him as the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq will not gain so much notoriety. Al-Zarqawi met no interference from Saddam Hussein before the invasion...
...comparison, McKinley had been everything a robber baron could hope for in a President. He consulted with Wall Street on economic policy, kept tariffs high--they protected American industry but meant higher prices for consumers--and never moved to curb the growth of trusts, the huge enterprises that gathered together smaller companies to form near monopolies. Oil, steel, rubber, copper--one after another, the major sectors of the U.S. economy were becoming dominated by behemoths like John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil, which marketed 84% of all the petroleum products in the U.S. As large companies gobbled up smaller ones...
...face it - the comparison just isn't fair. At all. Remember the highlight clips, the posters from the 1980s, when a skinny Michael Jordan soared above the seven-foot stiffs of the day, his knees knocking their noses, for a ferocious, "did that just happen?" dunk? Well, as amazing as he is, anointing Miami Heat superstar guard and NBA Finals MVP Dwyane Wade the rightful heir to His Airness is just silly - just as it was before with such flameouts as Harold Miner, or stars in their own right like Vince Carter and Kobe Bryant...