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...truth, the New Paradigm is the way Americans are sharpening their wits in the presence of great danger. It is the reinstatement of an older model--a pre-Vietnam perspective. You hear that reinstated moral design in Bush's quaint--and artful--use of the word evil. He speaks of "the evil ones" and "the evildoers"--and at first it sounds like the vocabulary of professional wrestling. But Bush means to tell the evil ones that he is as willing as they are to deal in absolutes. The Old Paradigm dismisses the concept of evil as being an ignorant demonization...
...danger of a new civil war is not only confined to Kabul. Local warlords appear to be grabbing for power all over southern Afghanistan in the wake of the fleeing Taliban, warily eyeing one another as they stake their own claims. The international community is, not surprisingly, working frantically to get a U.N.-mandated security force and transitional regime installed. Western powers, supported by Russia and Iran, backed a Security Council plan adopted Wednesday night to authorize a mission to Afghanistan that includes a two-year transitional government backed by a multinational peacekeeping force, composed of troops sent by such...
...have unified to support those in need—charities like the American Red Cross have been flooded with donations for victims of the terrorist attacks. But we must remember that al-Qaeda is not America’s only enemy, and international terror not the only danger that we face. Even as we fight terrorism in earnest, we cannot leave our battles against other national security threats half-fought...
...United States declared the global spread of AIDS a national security threat, citing regions where more than 20 percent of adults are infected with HIV and where millions of children will be orphaned by the disease. No society can sustain that kind of devastation, and the danger has only increased in the intervening year and a half. In addition to a human tragedy, the AIDS epidemic represents a direct threat to America’s interests; if it has taught us nothing else, the war in Afghanistan has shown how instability abroad can directly threaten us at home...
...friends’ rooms immediately got the message, as we were incessantly checking e-mail for breaking news about the calamity, and we grudgingly returned home. Those wandering the streets were found the next morning by the Charles half-frozen to death, still oblivious to the fact that the danger had passed...