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What is most disturbing of all is the fact that within the Middle East—where untold multitudes of people espouse beliefs that America’s now-familiar Muslim apologists insist are unrepresentative of mainstream Islam—there is a dearth of institutional voices condemning the fallacies of fanaticism. And yet such condemnations are precisely what is needed. The principled Muslim leaders of the West can do nothing to sway public opinion in Kabul or Karachi, Khartoum or Cairo. Absent a coordinated, concerted and continuous effort on the part of the Middle East’s clerics...
...where it remained far from clear which executive, if any, was in charge. Ridge, who had been all but invisible since his swearing-in as Homeland chief the week before, joked with reporters that "I thought it was the appropriate time to come out." While he was quick to insist yet again that he had all the firepower he needed and could walk into the Oval Office any time he wanted?"I have the President's ear," he said?he also said flat out that he didn't have "technical operational authority" to do much of anything. In his private...
...necessary to look after their business in Kandahar." Why was he still here? "I have no place to go," he said. Omar's home is abandoned and cordoned off. From the outside, I could only see that the boundary wall remained intact, as did the faCade. Local residents insist the house has been destroyed and claim that an unknown number of Omar's relatives have been killed...
...only three weeks old, and U.S. and British officials insist things are going as expected. "You always hope for a lucky punch," says an Air Force commander. "But you usually don't get lucky, so you just keep pressing on." Pentagon officials have said some ground operations aimed at crushing the Taliban and al-Qaeda may not get under way until next spring. "We're not setting timetables," Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Thursday. In a remarkable admission, Rear Admiral John Stufflebeem said, "I am a bit surprised at how doggedly they're hanging onto power. We definitely need...
...commitment as a nation to defend innocent human life. These considerations follow a recent national discussion about ethics and public policy: President George W. Bush’s Aug. 9 decision to restrict federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. While critics dismiss the decision as merely political, we insist that our country’s concern for human dignity requires the rejection of a utilitarian view of human life...