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...need so-called weapons of mass destruction to devastate a society. A few airplanes will do. "That's why it was so brilliant," says a Pentagon official. A senior aide to Vice President Dick Cheney falls back on football metaphors. The Administration remains worried about the need to defend against "the long bomb"--a chemical, biological or nuclear attack. But just as crucial, this aide argues, is to protect against "short yardage"--attacks on bridges, tunnels, power plants, chemical-storage facilities and refineries. "There are hundreds of these targets," says a Pentagon official, "and attacking them with conventional means...
...Korea's coaches defend the rituals, saying they help develop guts and steely nerves. Once upon a time, archery was practiced in silence. Today, the athletes compete in international tournaments with boisterous crowds. Coaches also want to keep the athletes from getting soft. "They think they can be the best without hard training," says Kim Ki Chang, head of the Korean Archery Association. Even Chung Jae Hun, one of the suspended archers, feels Korea should stick with what works. Repentant, the Olympic silver medalist now regrets quitting the camp: "It was a spur of the moment decision. I wouldn...
...idea is ludicrous, that there weren't 4,000 Israelis employed at the World Trade Center, and that many Jews died along with Muslims and Christians. But this incendiary piece of misinformation has been circulated in the mosques and Urdu newspapers for days, steeling the local resolve to defend bin Laden as Islam's hero. One earnest youth tells me that when he joins the jihad against America, he'll rim his eyes with kohl so that the maidens in martyr's paradise will find him more handsome. This nutty zealousness rattles me; I start telling people in the bazaar...
...patriotism is neither tie-dyed pacifism nor jingoistic bloodlust. Rather, it is a burning dedication to the ideals that American democracy embodies and an unflinching determination to defend those ideals through whatever means are most effective. If diplomacy fails—if the call to arms proves inescapable and we must kill to make the world free—patriotism does not prevent us from hanging our heads in sorrow. But it does forbid us from wringing our hands and walking away. And I think all those war-crazed lunatics who, like me, have lined up behind a president supposedly...
...than two weeks have elapsed since HIPJ responded to the terrorist attack armed with flowers and olive branches. These weapons, representing a reckless dismissal of any military action and a knee-jerk preference for peace and amity, are just as dangerous as the ones our nation will use to defend itself. In the real world, peace is secured by righteous armies...