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...want the Jewish people to have a homeland as intended by the U.N., and the Israeli people have the right to defend themselves against terrorist tactics. Yet given the painful history of the crimes against the Jewish people, it saddens me to see the disproportionate response by Israel. Israel should hold to the highest standards of human rights and fairness. It should be careful that it does not become what it seeks to defend itself against. Greg Bergh, CAPE TOWN...
...contents serves to remind that Barack Obama has got a ton on his plate - starting now. As the dozens of contributors write, Obama has to: restore America's world leadership role, convince Americans that the government can work for them, responsibly pull out from Iraq, protect the homeland, reduce America's dependence on foreign oil, transition towards a green economy, invest in the nation's crumbling infrastructure, halt torture, close Guantanamo Bay, make the federal government transparent again, reduce global poverty, cut taxes, halt the war on science, expand health-care coverage, utilize diplomacy on a more regular basis, solve...
Very few people are going to read Change for America front to back. Broken up into topical essays, it's easy to jump back and forth between an explanation of how the Department of Homeland Security stinks to an argument in favor of a new National Energy Council. And while much of the book delves into government bureaucracy to an almost molecular degree, all Americans (even those who don't lean left) should flip through. You'll learn about your government (you'll re-learn all that stuff you picked up in high school and quickly forgot...
...National-security experts say the cover-all-bases approach is justified because of the sheer scale and prestige of the Inauguration. "It is the most challenging national-security event in the world," says Edward Clark, a former director of Homeland Security. "You're talking about a huge volume of people, and of dignitaries, so it is potentially a target for every kind of extremist, domestic or foreign." Besides, says Clark, the authors of the assessment report also need to cover themselves for every untoward possibility. "This is as much a political situation as it is a security situation," he says...
...said there was not a single credible terrorism threat, domestic or foreign, to the Inauguration. That covered the whole gamut of threats, from a cyberattack on sensitive computers to the use of weapons of mass destruction. Top officials have echoed these findings. "I don't anticipate anything disruptive," Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff told CNN. But, he added, "part of my job is to hope for the best but plan for the worst...