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Although I am not a Republican and do not agree with Senator John McCain's war policy on Iraq - my son was killed there - I respect Sarah Palin for her decision to keep her Down-syndrome baby [Sept. 15]. I am the father of a 28-year-old Down-syndrome daughter, whom I've cared for almost single-handedly since the death of her mother 16 years ago. My daughter has been a source of joy and hope in the midst of family setbacks. Even if Palin does not win the election, she at least has put a new face...
...children. As this sobering report makes clear, the United States still has much work to do in Afghanistan, where the number of terrorist attacks and support for the Taliban insurgency have been rising largely under the radar of a western media focused on elections and the war in Iraq. The U.S. response has been a sloppy counterinsurgency; according to a recent United Nations report, U.S. and NATO forces have been responsible for 577 Afghan civilian deaths this year, 395 of which were due to airstrikes. The immediate objective should thus be to prevent additional civilian deaths due to airstrikes...
...some fanciful will to surrender is a trick so old it must be collecting dust away from the top levels of American politics. If so, Senator Lindsey Graham proved you wrong, when he announced: “Barack Obama’s campaign is built around us losing in Iraq.” It may be a red-meat line to the base, but this is certainly not a fact...
What do you make of the outbreak of violence between Shi'ites and Sunnis, especially in Iraq? How do you expect that will that play...
...Obviously this is an internal division among Muslims. The case of Iraq is a particularly important one because Iraq is a country that has a Shi'ite majority but a Sunni domination. I would borrow a word from the Irish history to describe it and say it's the "Shi'ite Ascendancy." Since the days of the medieval Caliphate, the Sunnis remained the ruling group. They monopolized all of the positions of power and authority. Now, for the first time, the Shi'ite has access to power as they must inevitably in any real democracy, and so far its going...