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Krauthammer points out that the al-Qaeda recruitment tape shows “a two-hour orgy of blood and death,” including “glorious images of desecration of the infidel—mutilated American soldiers in Somalia, the destruction of the USS Cole, mangled bodies at the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.” How can we reconcile with a culture that celebrates such genocide? Our own civilization’s differences with radical Islam are simply irreconcilable in any diplomatic sense. We are fighting not only to eliminate a source of hatred...
...This is what it was like covering George Bush last week in Shanghai, as he visited the coast city for the Asia-Pacific Economic Conference. What was planned to have been a glorious coming out party for China in the guise of a trade summit, was now dominated by the issue of terror, and the President's hosts were not going to let him get a paper cut on their watch - which is why we were getting so much attention. For Bush, the pre-war purpose of the visit was a multi- country stature-building jaunt for a president...
...national ID throws a spotlight on the competing equities of security and freedom. We have always had to find the right path between these two virtues. During wartime, America has a long and not very glorious history of sacrificing liberty in favor of security. John Adams championed the Alien and Sedition Acts during a period of tension with France. Abraham Lincoln suspended habeas corpus during the Civil War. Franklin Roosevelt tolerated the internment of Japanese-Americans during World...
...Indeed, balloon sculpture can be seen as a defiant assertion that an object made purely for the pleasure of the populace can be re-defined as an aesthetic object with multi-dimensional resonance beyond its superficial meaning as the most mundane of all party decorations. We can see this glorious likeness of the Statue of Liberty thus as a kind of post-modern icon: a transformation—nay, subversion—of traditional elite definitions of “high art” through the medium of the balloon. Because this form of art rejects the notion...
...island tour. Two hours inland is Tetebatu, a small village on Rinjani's southern slope that offers clear views up to the volcano. Hotels are cheap and cheerful. A cut above the rest is the Hotel Soedjono, an old Dutch colonial house with rooms, plus outlying cottages, most with glorious vistas of the terraces, and a colossal pool; fax (62-376) 223-22 or call (62) 8185-44265 to book. Rates are a scarcely believable $4-$9, with breakfast. The hotel restaurant, and its nameless neighbor to the west, serve authentic spicy curries rather than the wimpish stews served...