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...lives of pilots to drop food and medicine to refugees. It is true that the Taliban do not represent all Afghans. But in a war of necessity one may not have the luxury of that distinction. The Nazis did not represent all Germans. But with the need to destroy the enemy lest he destroy us, those niceties could not be observed. Churchill's wartime speeches had few endearing words for those he insisted on calling the Hun. His bombers made the point with emphasis...
...that slaughter that begets necessity. The anthrax attacks give but a hint of the kind of mass murder possible today. A smallpox epidemic could kill tens of millions and effectively destroy American society. As could loose nukes. According to Boris Yeltsin's former national security adviser, Russia cannot account for all its tactical nuclear weapons. Iraq and Iran are working on nuclear weapons of their own. On Sept. 11, it took just 19 conspirators to shock America. It would take just 19 more, each with a suitcase nuke, to destroy America...
...totally destroy the military infrastructure of the Taliban while at the same time strengthening the Northern Alliance (which represents only about a third of the tribes) would lead to extreme political imbalances in Afghanistan and be a cause of more bloodshed [THE TALIBAN, Oct. 15]. So it is of the utmost importance that the U.S. clean up the mess it creates in Afghanistan, help set up a fair and balanced government and not desert the Afghans as it did in the 1980s. SIBGHAT ULLAH Lahore, Pakistan...
VAPORIZERS Explosives that quickly destroy factories and stores of biological-or chemical-warfare agents
...deep in the lungs, in the tiniest air sacs known as alveoli. The warm, moist environment, and possibly the concentration of carbon dioxide in the lungs, stimulates the bacterium to emerge from its protective spore. As each bacterium reproduces, it releases toxins, which eventually spread throughout the body and destroy tissue and organs...