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...this whole script that was written. Let's destroy this guy. I would have a billion dollars and the war would still be going on? I would have wiped these guys out the first three months. A billion dollars, and no one can find the money... Where does any human being on this earth hide one million dollars? In a hole someplace? Come on, not in a banking institution anywhere in the world. Come on. It's a sad, sad case...
...Governor, a minister who had become a politician, as an example. "The most dangerous hypocrite in a Commonwealth is one who leaves the gospel for the sake of the law. A man compounded of law and gospel is able to cheat a whole country with his religion and then destroy them under color...
Franklin's other edits were less felicitous. He changed Jefferson's "reduce them to arbitrary power" to "reduce them under absolute despotism," and he took out the literary flourish in Jefferson's "invade and deluge us in blood" to make it more sparse: "invade and destroy us." And a few of his changes seemed somewhat pedantic. "Amount of their salaries" became "amount and payment of their salaries...
...dictionary describes "those military, paramilitary, political, economic, psychological, and civic actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency." And textbook counterinsurgency prioritizes the political and administrative aspects over combat - the insurgency depends on the support or, at least, consent of the local population; the authorities work to isolate and destroy the insurgents by winning the loyalty of the local population through providing good governance and protection from intimidation. The U.S. hopes to get help from allies, hoping to recruit two or even three divisions of assorted Europeans and south Asians to help provide security. It's not yet clear...
...sentenced on Aug. 1, contributed to the recent decision to raise the terrorism alert to orange. They were deemed especially credible, according to law-enforcement officials, because they were supported by previous multiple tips. As far back as last fall, the U.S. was hearing about a serious plot to destroy the Brooklyn Bridge that involved a Midwesterner. An intelligence report from early 2002 said al-Qaeda wanted to derail a train in the industrial corridor of northeast Washington, hoping to smash the cars into tanks of hazardous chemicals stored near the tracks...