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...listen. But it's patently clear that the peace that Western leaders had hoped would solve the problem cannot be saved. Once Freetown is secured, the international community will face some brutal choices: Either the West will have to risk some of its own resources in a war to destroy Sankoh's forces and bring him to justice, or it will have to arm and pay the Nigerians - or some other group of guns for hire - to do the job. Because as long as Sankoh remains at large, no ragtag band of teenage killers anywhere need ever again fear...
...cannot be the touchstone for deciding when to undermine fundamental liberties. With the purest of motives bands of vulgarity vigilantes strip bookshelves of some of the world's greatest literature. With the purest of motives we imprisoned American citizens of Japanese ancestry during World War II. Pure motives that destroy fundamental liberties lead us down a short road to chaos...
...such epithets pretty well summed up the Vikings for those who lived in the British Isles during medieval times. For hundreds of years after their bloody appearance at the end of the 8th century A.D., these ruthless raiders would periodically sweep in from the sea to kill, plunder and destroy, essentially at will. "From the fury of the Northmen, deliver us, O Lord" was a prayer uttered frequently and fervently at the close of the first millennium. Small wonder that the ancient Anglo-Saxons--and their cultural descendants in England, the U.S. and Canada--think of these seafaring Scandinavians...
Only one nation--Russia--can destroy civilization as we know it in the U.S. Only one other nation--China--can readily increase its nuclear arsenal in response to U.S. missile defense. The U.S. should be more concerned now about reducing nuclear arms with those nations than about so-called rogues that present minimal nuclear threats...
...Handbook or go with your son to a troop meeting, you'll hear nothing about gays. He also acknowledges that, perversely, if they were more stridently anti-gay--if they were the Boy Scouts of the K.K.K.--they would have a clearer First Amendment claim that admitting gays would destroy everything they stand for. "Look, if this were a business, the Boy Scouts would simply put a few lines [of anti-gay rhetoric] in a corporate handbook and be done with it," says Davidson, who usually defends major businesses...