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...color-coded terrorism warnings during the 2004 presidential campaign were a cynical example of that bombast. The drumbeat from pro-Iraq-war elements aims to reassure us that we're fighting terrorists over there so we don't have to fight them within our borders. The episode at Fort Dix in New Jersey, no matter how dumb the plotters were, is proof positive that terrorism can occur on our shores even if we're in Iraq. The war has accomplished nothing except to recruit more terrorists. Steve Charing, CLARKSVILLE, MARYLAND...
...enemy must create six incidents to create a casualty of some variety." But top commanders know that roadside bombs can't really be defeated by gadgetry. At a conference on roadside bombs, Brigadier General Joe Ramirez Jr., deputy commanding general of the Combined Arms Training Center at Fort Leavenworth, Kans., said, "For every move we make, the enemy makes three ... The enemy changes techniques, tactics and procedures every two to three weeks...
What is different about our situation now is the large number of illegal immigrants and the unparalleled ease of getting here, whether from next-door Mexico or anyplace with airports. A handful of immigrants may be dangerous in precisely the way Otis imagined; the alleged Fort Dix plotters are from Jordan, Turkey and the former Yugoslavia. The vast majority who come here looking for work may feel the renewing force of assimilation less if they live in a ceaseless stream of their compatriots...
...scout in the 1st Infantry Division of Fort Riley, Kans., Genevie had to fight to get into the Army. Military doctors told him he couldn't enlist with his history of asthma and shoulder problems. But Genevie knew he could handle the training. He videotaped himself doing rigorous 20-minute workouts to show that he wouldn't slow down his unit. He even drafted a letter to President Bush asking him to intervene. Genevie never sent it because the Army eventually let him in. His mother Patricia found the letter among his things a few days after he died...
...America’s heart. The best way to identify imagination-loss in my peers is to see their response when someone dares to deviate from the sensible adult behavior we’ve adopted. You can try it yourself: If you want to play freeze-tag, build a fort or play make-believe, how many of your friends want to play with you? They’ll probably humor you in a tongue-in-cheek way, covering their discomfort with phrases like, “Wow, that’s random...