Word: homelands
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...fight for as long as it takes. Espoused by Bush Administration officials, the contention of this group is that by withdrawing from Iraq, we'd unleash a bloodbath, hand al-Qaeda and Iran huge victories, destabilize the Persian Gulf and empower terrorists everywhere to attack our allies and our homeland. In the face of those dangers, say the White House and its backers, America has no choice but to remain in Iraq until a democracy emerges from the chaos of the Middle East - a project they openly acknowledge is the work of a generation...
...size and heterogeneity, it's easy to buy into the myth of a monolithic state. That myth is burnished by central government in Beijing, and also by the common habit among its citizens of starting a sentence with the phrase, "We Chinese..." Every citizen knows that their glorious homeland boasts 5,000 years of history - a fact that regularly gets repeated when a reporter from a mere pup of a nation 231 years old gets too uppity...
MICHAEL CHERTOFF, Homeland Security Secretary, on his "gut feeling" that terrorists could strike the U.S. this summer...
...similarity to one frequently told by Al Gore. In Gore's tale - the version below is from a September 8, 1999 address to the American Legion (full disclosure: neither of us remembers working on the speech, but we remember the story] - there was no triumphant Albright returning to her homeland, just a man from Murfreesboro, Tennessee, visiting his Senator...
...Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff's "gut feeling" that an al-Qaeda attack in the U.S. may be imminent is more than just a hunch - it echoes the prevailing sentiment among intelligence and counterterrorism officials in Europe...