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...destroying Osama bin Laden and wiping out terrorists' bases, no air operation will work. The bases are hidden in bunkers, tunnels and mountain caves. You can't hope for a blind direct hit when you don't know where your target is. Bombs and missiles, however smart, will only crush hills into dust, and should they fall on cities, kill a lot of innocent people. Nor will it work in terms of intimidation either: Afghans are not the people to be intimidated. We learned that through bitter experience...
...hero, David Letterman could not bring himself to jump back into the merriment of stupid human tricks or cynical jokes about the Commander-in-Chief when his show went on-air again, I can’t justify spending time reading about the right way to flirt with a crush or why the red and pink two-piece combo is so last season. The alternating accounts of devastation and heroism that are a constant part of most conversations and news clips have made whimsical decisions and activities harder to enjoy. And yes, I find that some amount of solemnity...
...Outside the decaying former American embassy building in downtown Tehran - due to open next month as a "museum of global arrogance" - two university students waited for a bus. They eyed the ghoulish slogans painted on the wall: "America is a Great Satan" and "Iran will crush the U.S. under its foot." Sniffed one of the students, Maryam Ghasemi: "'Under our foot? Now the U.S. is lodged in our hearts...
...supposedly worked in the World Trade Center stayed at home the day of the attacks. "It was all arranged by Israel," says Abdul Baky, a 26 year-old shopkeeper. "The Jews stayed away, and kept their paper records outside their offices." He is holding a sign which reads "Crush America - our Leader is Osama Bin Laden". Baky says that "if America attacks Afghanistan, I will myself go as a suicide bomber to America...
...firefighters and teachers and nurses and paramedics. Had you seen a fireman interviewed on prime time TV before this week, before 300 of his fellow firefighters died saving others and his boots melted on his feet after digging 24 hours at a stretch in ruins that could still crush him? I don't remember any. Instead, we are served a steady diet of glamorized businessmen. Welch is hailed as an icon of our time for driving up the stock price of General Electric...