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...Send Missives, Not Missiles "Why not Talk?" [May 22] described the reasons President Bush will not respond to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's rambling 18-page letter. Although Ahmadinejad's missive wanders, covering a multitude of issues, the central message is that Bush does not live up to Christian teachings. The letter repeatedly refers to Jesus Christ and Moses, followed by the acronym for "peace be upon him." Indeed, Ahmadinejad cites Jesus but never mentions the Prophet Muhammad. Bush should reply in kind by citing Koranic passages to point out how Ahmadinejad does not live up to Islamic principles...
...recognized the special career challenges those students chose to pursue; and in doing so, you honored all of your students and faculty," Rumsfeld writes in his letter, dated May 31. "Through your actions, you provided every ROTC student with an important sense of belonging, and for that I am most grateful...
This past fall, Rumsfeld and Summers found themselves on opposite sides of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” debate—a fact that goes unmentioned in the defense chief’s letter. The Pentagon threatened to block hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funds to Harvard unless the Law School let military recruiters use its career placement office. Summers said in September that the military’s policy toward gay and lesbian service members was “corrosive.” And Harvard joined...
Rumsfeld's letter was confirmed today by a spokesman for the Defense Department, Army Lt. Col. Jeremy Martin. A copy was posted on the website of Advocates for Harvard ROTC, a group of alumni and supporters who have called for a return of ROTC to campus...
...financing from other Arab states will continue to come in for Al-Qaeda in Iraq because, though Zarqawi was the head of the organization, he was not in charge of the finances. That fundraising mechanism, therefore, continues to function. On Saturday, many Islamic resistance websites posted a condolence letter about the death of Zarqawi from the Shura Council of Mujahedeen in Iraq. The bottom of the letter was signed: Abu Abdullah Rasheed al Baghdadi...