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...during the decade of the former Prime Minister's conservative administration - they had witnessed the tacit acceptance of Hanson and her divisive politics, and had been caught up in the panicky xenophobia that swept the nation in response not only to the arrival of asylum seekers from Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere, but also to the growing visibility and affluence of Australia's nonwhite communities. All this went through my mind as I watched them dance, sing and wave their new battle standard in the sea breeze...
...meantime, how many tens of thousands of Muslims have been radicalized against the U.S. because of Abu Ghraib and reports of other instances of our use of torture? Some of those newly radicalized may be plotting more 9/11s. And many have already killed large numbers of Americans in Iraq and Afghanistan in suicide bombings, guerrilla warfare and other attacks. Geoff Pietsch, Gainesville...
...doubt that at least in some cases torture did save lives. In the meantime, how many Muslims have been radicalized against the U.S.? Some of those newly radicalized may be plotting more 9/11s. And many have already killed large numbers of Americans in Iraq and Afghanistan. Geoff Pietsch, GAINESVILLE...
...served it well during what was the kingdom's third great oil boom of the past four decades. After the high prices of the 1970s, Saudi Arabia's economy went through a long-drawn-out slowdown as oil revenues plummeted for most of the 1980s. After a spike when Iraq invaded Kuwait, prices weakened again in the 1990s, even as Saudi struggled to pay off its (large) chunk of the bill for the first Gulf War. At the height of the Asian financial crisis in 1998, oil prices had fallen to just $12 a barrel. This meant that Saudi Arabia...
...NATO commander in Afghanistan by three-star Army Lieut. General Stanley McChrystal. It's the first dismissal of a wartime general since that of Douglas MacArthur during the Korean War. The appointment of McChrystal, a former special-ops chief credited with orchestrating the capture of Saddam Hussein in Iraq, signifies a more pointed, aggressive military posture in Afghanistan...