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...root cause” bemoaned by the left has always been poverty, because people who are poor are supposedly desperate. Poor people, they say, carry out acts of violence and terror because they simply have nothing to lose—they do not fear death because life could scarcely contain more misery. However, like so much of the conventional wisdom concerning the Middle East, the idea that poverty is a precipitator of terrorism is flat-out wrong...
...He’s the number one thing we have to contain to contain their offense,” Murphy said...
Though these references are sometimes vastly generalized and mispronounced (“Fundamentally, America in 1860 and America now are little different.”), more often than not they serve to allow access to less knowledgeable readers. Even the above case can be found to contain a kernel of cross-historical truth, when it is followed by the explanation, “much of the opposition we can muster [to America’s leadership past and present] is ‘sniveling...
...Grumet-Morris couldn’t contain the Big Red forever. Though he turned in 14 saves on the power play alone, the seven Crimson penalties provided Cornell with one too many opportunities...
Everyone agrees that the sheer amount of explosives available in Iraq is a chief reason why the U.S. has failed to contain the insurgency. A group called al-Islam's Army Brigades last week said it had obtained many of the al-Qaqaa explosives; military leaders have long suspected that U.S. troops were being attacked with weapons they had failed to secure in the rush to Baghdad. Although that suggests there were insufficient U.S. forces on the ground, some military leaders believe that even 100,000 more troops would not have made a difference. In October 2003, Lieut. General Ricardo...