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...think I’ve found it. While Tony Blair is still “with us,” the students at Cambridge are, to borrow Bush’s words, “with the terrorists.” In response to the overwhelming hostility toward my homeland, I’ve embarked upon my own American jihad in the streets of Cambridge—draping myself in an American flag, waving obnoxious signs boasting that “Blair’s our bitch” and blasting Lee Greenwood’s classic...
...There has not been enough criticism of where the administration’s efforts have been,” McGeary said. “Most importantly the administration has been focusing almost entirely on Iraq to the expense of homeland security, which should be the primary concern...
Such a dilemma arose when the U.S. Department of Homeland Security raised the terror alert level from yellow, or “elevated,” to orange, or “high,” last month...
...through it, we instead have Mr. Ridge. The Homeland Security Secretary, Tom Ridge, likewise is a soft-spoken Pennsylvanian trying to be reassuring yet realistic. He has not had an easy time of it. During last month's orange alert, the fatalistic talk about contingency plans and three days' supplies of water hinted at a message no one would tell Americans plainly: we believe a terrible thing is coming, and we will not be able to stop it. Ridge had a basically Rogersian task--getting Americans to accept a terrible eventuality that they could not prevent. So Homeland Security offered...
...content with the considerable freedom they already enjoy under an autonomous government with its own police force, tax authority, and health and education ministries. The spectrum of opinion stretches from espanolistas who scorn autonomy to the estimated 200 active commandos of ETA (short for Euskadi Ta Askatasuna, Basque Homeland and Liberty), who vow to end their 35-year terror spree only when the region is independent. Egunkaria was the sole daily paper to publish exclusively in the ancient Basque language, and most Basques see its shutdown as an attack on their unique linguistic and cultural heritage. Tens of thousands turned...