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...Iraq, it's not hard to find young men who talk the terrorist talk, boasting of their willingness to serve as human bombs. It's hard to judge the speakers' sincerity. But the latest surge of suicide operations proves there is no scarcity of volunteers to become the most lethal weapon Iraq's insurgents have. Since May 1, Iraq has witnessed at least 129 suicide attacks, accounting for several of the estimated 150 U.S. fatalities during this period, including as many as six soldiers killed in an attack of their convoy near Fallujah last week. Most...
...while attempting a landing in a thunderstorm at Dallas/Fort Worth Airport, dooming 134. The accidents seemed to have little in common; in all but one, however, widebodied airliners were involved. With the JAL crash, the worldwide civil aviation death toll for 1985 passed 1,400, making it the most lethal air travel year in history and raising, once again, fears about safety in the skies...
...just ten terror-filled minutes last Friday, the civilized world was thus given yet another reminder of its vulnerability at the hands of suicidal terrorists, of the lethal instability that emanates from the Middle East and, finally, of life's terrifying fragility. Responsibility for the attacks was claimed by a dissident Palestine Liberation Organization splinter group. The assaults touched off widespread debate about possible motives, about the Likelihood of Israeli retaliation, and about whether the massacres could have been prevented in the first place...
...there are neither sweet nor simple. We know, most of us, better than that. Just read your own books and see. The "state" is a necessary evil simply because many individuals are very capable of being very deadly. Moreover, some states are almost fair, some are bad, some are lethal. And since writers are, or at least ought to be, in the subtleties department and in the precision department, it is our job to differentiate. Whoever ignores the existence of varying degrees of evil is bound to become a servant of evil...
France was in torment . Youths marched through the streets of Nantes shouting lethal threats at their neighbors. The Jewish-owned shops of Nancy were invaded and the synagogue besieged. In Paris, anti-Semitic troops marched in the Latin Quarter, on the boulevards and around the Palais de Justice: familiar sights to students of World War II--but this was two generations before...