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Workers last week began placing miles of plastic booms around the desalination facilities. Because petroleum generally floats on water, such booms, which extend up to 1 m (3 ft.) below the surface, can contain a slick. The next step is to put skimming equipment inside the booms and begin scooping up the oil, either with vacuuming devices or by drawing oil-absorbent plastic ropes through it and wringing them out. Some of the crude can be salvaged as kerosene...
...India. Islamic scholars of the era emphasized militaristic verses of the Koran over those that counsel peacemaking. Muslims spoke of the earth as being divided between the dar ul- Islam (realm of Islam) and the dar ul-harb (realm of war), implying a need for ongoing combat to extend the faith's domain. In succeeding centuries, as Muslims consolidated a multinational empire, the language of militant jihad faded...
...with military purposes in mind. Tar balls could gum up the desalinization plants along the Saudi coast that provide most of the fresh water to the gulf countries as well as to allied troops. As the Saudis scrambled to divert the slick with surface booms, plans were considered to extend intake lines deep into unpolluted waters and provide backup water supplies. President George Bush sent an interagency team to Saudi Arabia to assist the containment effort...
THERE ARE PLENTY of good reasons to fight in the Gulf: eliminating Iraq's offensive capability, preserving oil supplies and yes, deterring aggression in the Middle East. But if Bush expects to extend this vision of collective security to a global New World Order, he may be in for a surprise...
...even leaving the hypocrisy of this argument aside, you can't stop aggression with aggression. Bush, in his speech, expressed the hope that we could bring back Iraq into the peaceful international family. Let's extend that analogy. If you're trying to teach your children not to fight, it's not going to do much good if you beat them whenever they fight someone else...