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Early this May, an ambulance carrying five of Farmer’s colleagues in Cange was hijacked at gunpoint by uniformed men, apparently former members of the Duvalier dictatorship’s dismantled army. The men, it later became clear, had killed two security guards at a major power plant and shut down electricity for the island nation’s central region...
...Large Harold Meyerson has a piece entitled “The Most Dangerous President Ever.” George W. Bush, he contends, bears an alarming resemblance to the Confederacy’s Jefferson Davis. Like Bush, Davis “had dreams of building an empire at gunpoint,” and, “as with Davis, obtaining Bush’s defeat is an urgent matter of national security—and national honor.” In denouncing the president’s foreign policy as imperialistic, Meyerson echoes what has become a common talking point...
...change their tastes. National Review’s Jonah Goldberg uses this analogy: “If the coolest guy in school wears a leather jacket and all the other kids follow suit, that’s hardly the same thing as the coolest guy forcing them at gunpoint to buy a leather jacket...
...tribe that owned the gas station had been exasperated by outsiders - Kurds, apparently - taking fuel at gunpoint without payment. The tribe had called in reinforcements and opened fire on suspected looters. They would let us go by, we were told, but would shoot anybody trying to get into the station. A well-armed checkpoint waved us by with salutations just outside the gas station. Twenty or so men with automatic rifles, machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades waved from the ditch where they had taken up positions. We drove on past the usual sights along the Tikrit road: a missile...
...Erbil and Suleymaniya were streaming into the city with empty pickup trucks. In some places the Peshmerga Kurdish forces were vainly trying to stop the looting, while they actively participated in others. Arab and Turkish residents claimed they were being targeted. One Turk who whose car was stolen at gunpoint begged the Americans to help him get it back. "We don't trust the Kurds," he said...