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...address to Congress and the watching world, discharged the weightiest responsibility that any President can ever be asked to shoulder. Americans, Bush said, had to prepare for a "lengthy campaign unlike any other we have ever seen." That this will be a real war was made explicit. "I've called the armed forces to alert," said Bush, "and there is a reason. The hour is coming when America will act, and you will make us proud...
...often does, cross-legged on the floor, praying and reading the Koran, which has guided him, since the formation of the Taliban in 1994, from scholarly obscurity to spiritual leader of the movement and temporal ruler of the Islamic Emirates of Afghanistan. Yet Omar may find little explicit instruction there for a decision that could equally satisfy his tribal ethics, his puritanical version of Islam and his nation's interests. If he delivers bin Laden to the West, he betrays the man who helped bring him to power and sustains his rule now. If he follows his faith in Islamic...
...British government imposed on travel west beyond the Appalachian Mountains. During the Cold War, Soviet nationals marveled at how Americans could pass from state to state without being stopped for “papers.” Furthermore, the Supreme Court deemed this right to travel freely to be explicit in the Constitution under the 14th Amendment’s “equal protection” clause...
...because the rally’s platform ultimately rested on these platitudes, it allowed for and promoted assumptions that would have been made explicit, and likely rejected, in a more substantive agenda. No one could criticize a “respectful dialogue” with Middle Eastern nations. But the unstated assumption of many speakers, that the U.S. will never need to use limited force to prevent future terrorist attacks, was not and could not have been justified. For all our attempts to address the “roots” of terrorism—socioeconomic, political, religious?...
Women don’t form terrorist group and attack civilian populations. Women don’t hijack planes with an explicit intent to kill thousands of innocent workers in a statuesque office building. Women don’t kamikaze themselves and 91 innocent passengers into a governmental monument filled with employees. It may be cultural construct, it may be gender stereotype, it may be biological influence. But women don’t do this...