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...they don't represent an existential threat to the U.S. Ahmadinejad commands no legions-not even the Hizballah forces in Lebanon that attacked Israel in the summer of 2006-and if Podhoretz doesn't know that, he should. Taking Ahmadinejad literally, as the neoconservatives do, is being disingenuous with lethal intent. It gives license to a conga line of politicians-especially Republicans running for ?President-to strut their stuff by jumping on Ahmadinejad and Columbia University and liberals in general. Mitt Romney runs an ad in which he brags that he denied the milquetoast reformer Khatami a police escort...
...Granted, Washington and New York aren't Baghdad. Still, the fact is security contractors are a daily reminder for Iraqis that their country is occupied, and they are second-class citizens. The insult is not just that security contractors are allowed to use lethal force and not worry about going to jail; a Western security contractor will make in a week what an Iraqi might make in a year. Private security contractors are a humiliation equal to the humiliations that provoked the Boxer Rebellion in China or drove Iranians to overthrow the Shah. Security contractors may be keeping our officials...
...contracted the disease in Massachusetts. Despite the recent cases, and the discovery earlier this month of infected mosquito populations just north of Mount Auburn Cemetery, the University’s West Nile Virus Task Force does not consider it an immediate threat. The mosquito-borne virus, which can be lethal to humans in a small minority of cases, has surfaced in the greater Boston area every year since it first appeared in the state in 2000, according to Sam Lipson, the city’s director of environmental health. Lipson said that the development should not dramatically raise concerns about...
...visited Iraq on Labor Day was al-Asad air base in Anbar province; a year ago, a military-intelligence report said the province had been "lost" to the jihadis. Now AQI seems to have been kicked out of Anbar, pushed back from Baghdad, forced to carry out its most lethal attacks on the northern periphery of the country. It was feared that the weeks before Petraeus and U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker made their September reports to Congress would be dominated by the insurgency's State of Iraq report: spectacular bombings, perhaps even a Tet-style offensive. But-fingers crossed...
Several other Colorado communities--including Aspen, Craig and Pueblo--have also banned barbed wire. Even outside of residential areas, environmentalists are leading a charge to replace the fencing. It may be cheap and effective at keeping cattle in, but it can be lethal to wild animals like elk and antelope...