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...Extremist Islam is on everybody’s mind thanks to the Sept.11 anniversary and the thwarted plane attacks in Britain just over a month ago. And if this were not enough, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad can always be trusted to provide enough spice for any recipe. As he calls for revisionist “scholarly” conferences about the Holocaust (with insulting cartoons to go along), he has repeatedly expressed that the only permanent solution for the Middle East is the “elimination of the Zionist regime...
...Last week, America and the world marked the fifth anniversary of the attacks that filled another September morning with death and suffering. On that terrible day, extremists killed nearly 3,000 innocent people, including citizens of dozens of nations represented right here in this chamber. Since then, the enemies of humanity have continued their campaign of murder. Al Qaeda and those inspired by its extremist ideology have attacked more than two dozen nations. And recently a different group of extremists deliberately provoked a terrible conflict in Lebanon. At the start of the 21st century, it is clear that the world...
...Palestinian people voted in a free election. The leaders of Hamas campaigned on a platform of ending corruption and improving the lives of the Palestinian people, and they prevailed. The world is waiting to see whether the Hamas government will follow through on its promises, or pursue an extremist agenda. And the world has sent a clear message to the leaders of Hamas: Serve the interests of the Palestinian people. Abandon terror, recognize Israel's right to exist, honor agreements, and work for peace...
...opposite, seeking to overthrow the newly elected Hamas government though a financial blockade. Bush's suggestion Tuesday that "the world is waiting to see whether the Hamas government will follow through on its promises [of ending corruption and improving the lives of the Palestinian people], or pursue an extremist agenda" would certainly have been greeted with skepticism by many in the region, who feel that Hamas's ability to fulfill its election promises is entirely dependent on the U.S. and Israel lifting their financial blockade on the Palestinian Authority...
...Paging Bipartisan Patriots In his column on Joe Lieberman's defeat in the Connecticut primary [Aug. 21], Joe Klein implies that all Democrats want to return to MoveOn.org's "extremist" vision of the Democratic Party. The vote against Lieberman was neither extreme nor an assault on bipartisanship. It was a vote against Bush's extreme policies - which Lieberman supported. Voting against extreme policies does not make one an extremist, no matter how the g.o.p. spins it. Kevin Fink Fort Mill, South Carolina, U.S. Bravo to Klein for noting that "the real alternative to Bush's Republican extremism isn't Democratic...