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...subject themselves to delay, inconvenience and even indignity if they felt what they were undergoing was actually improving airport security. Since Sept. 11, subjecting oneself to security indignities has been a civic duty. But this has become a parody of civic duty. Random searches are being done purely to defend against the charge of racial profiling...
...down by a suicide bomber of another sort. It could. It could also be brought down by a meteorite. Or by a Stinger missile fired by Vermont dairymen in armed rebellion. These are all possible. But because they are rather improbable, we do not alter our daily lives to defend against the possibility...
...When the country is attacked, we need to defend ourselves and our political differences need to be subordinate,” she said...
...have the strongest conventional military in the world, and President Bush has proposed a $48 billion increase in defense spending this year. If we must defend an ally, we can do it on the ground, in the air, and at sea. We have gone 55 years—including an arms race that nearly brought us to nuclear holocaust—without using weapons of mass destruction in military attacks...
...tournament’s most exciting matches, Rechul avenged a late February loss to Brown’s Bronson Lingamfelter, winning 6-5 in the heavyweight final to defend his title...