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...opportunity exists for Democrats to support something specific and useful in Iraq. They could call on the President to make coin-and support for operations like Forward Together-the U.S. military's highest priority. "It would make a great deal of sense for us to do that," says Rhode Island Senator Jack Reed, a West Point graduate and leading Democratic expert on military affairs. "This Administration has never embraced real solutions to practical problems on the ground...
Providence is for rebels. the capital of the U.S. state of Rhode Island was founded in 1636 by Roger Williams, a stubborn Baptist banished from Massachusetts for criticizing that colony's government. He saw his exile not as punishment, but as a sign of God's "many providences." Dissenters would always be welcome here - the city, he said, would be a "lively experiment." It worked. The motto on the city seal is no obscure Latin phrase, but the salutation used by the local Indians to greet Williams: "What cheer?" Visitors[an error occurred while processing this directive] to Providence...
...commitment to Allah. "If it turns out to be Zawahiri's head, I hope you'll bring it here," Bush told his briefers - "half in jest," Suskind writes. But DNA testing ultimately revealed the skull wasn't Zawahiri's. It was shipped off to an FBI warehouse on Staten Island...
Michigan's Carl Levin and Rhode Island's Jack Reed have spent much of this month in a Washington version of hell. The two reigning Democratic policy wonks on defense issues led a series of meetings with seven other Senate Democrats in search of a unified plan to get U.S. troops out of Iraq. Two of the participants were Harry Reid of Nevada and Dick Durbin of Illinois, the Democrat's leaders in the Senate. The other five are all eyeing a run for President in 2008. Getting Democrats to agree on anything to do with Iraq these days...
...such indulgences, and countless others, you cross the bridge to the island principality of Bahrain - a country of almost 700,000, with high-rise hotels, a playboy king, a base for the U.S. Fifth Fleet, and significant cash flow from its role as a discreet "service provider" for Saudi Arabia. The lives of Saudis, and Bahrainis, are thoroughly framed by this arrangement, and its attendant hypocrisies. And both suffer the presence of its by-product: groups of stealthy, violent religious purists, graced with many opportunities to feel self-righteous. (See the top 10 inept terrorist plots...