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...keep the pressure on both countries. Stopping in Seoul last week during a swing through Asia to revive talks on the North Korean nuclear crisis, Secretary of State Colin Powell said the world badly needed to get Pyongyang back to the negotiating table. North Korea "is a danger to every one of its neighbors," he said...
...This is a sentiment that everyone can agree with; in fact, the previous President Bush’s national security advisor, Gen. Brent Scowcroft, made virtually the same comment in 2002. Not even the Republican Party wishes the United States to remain perpetually in grave danger of terrorism. Would it not be fine to live in a world in which terrorism posed no more danger than, say, illegal gambling? Katie Gray does a disservice to honest political discourse by claiming that Kerry said the opposite of what he actually said...
...9/11 to change his plans for invading Iraq, since her point is that 9/11 changed forever the way the United States needs to conduct its security. In that case, one might think that because of 9/11, the president would have realized that terrorism was a greater and more immediate danger to the United States than Iraq was, and put his Iraq plans on hold until Al Qaeda was defeated and America was made safe from terrorism. Sadly, he did not. And, because the president made Iraq a higher priority than the lessons of 2001, the United States is now scarcely...
...home life; despite their fights, Frank and Dora are a charismatic couple who love both each other and their son. When Frank begins to laugh at himself after overreacting to a man who has given Alan a disapproved-of horseback ride at the beach, we can see the danger in pathologizing Alan’s behavior as a reaction to his parents—or even, as the play suggests, as any more pathological than that of a normal, imperfect person...
...time (Consalvos worked between 1910 and 1940). But one of the major traps of dealing with “outsider” art is that in welcoming it into the mainstream (no matter how well-meaning our efforts to legitimize it may be) there is a real danger that we will lose sight of the qualities that make it special in the first place...