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Suddenly, everyone in America wants a flu shot. Companies are throwing open their in-house clinic doors while highly visible public figures like New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani urge everyone to rush out and get immunized. Getting a flu shot, the logic goes, means staying healthy during the looming flu season. Perhaps and, perhaps more important, it means warding off symptoms that might be confused with anthrax infection...
...Conservative columnists such as Charles Krauthammer and William Kristol have warned against fighting a war by half measures, and Senator John McCain has echoed their calls for a far greater U.S. military commitment. Theirs is a compelling logic: Once a superpower commits to a war, it has to prevail or else it won't be taken seriously as a superpower...
...life's "work and holy struggle." According to French terrorism expert Roland Jacquard, who has seen the approximately 600-page manuscript recently smuggled out of Afghanistan, the book details al-Zawahiri's reasons for devoting his life to the militant struggle, the significance of jihad and the justification and logic behind the killing of civilians. In short, says Jacquard, the manuscript is an al-Qaeda handbook. "What's really significant about this is the timing," Jacquard notes. "Bombs are falling on Afghanistan, U.S. special troops are apparently now on the ground, and things have got to be really heating...
...Duke. The fact that the favorable book review was published in a respectable mainstream newspaper like Al-Ahram again does not say anything about the position of the mainstream. If we were to open the pages of the eminently mainstream Crimson last Monday, then using Douthat’s logic, we would think that most Harvard students are profoundly ignorant of and biased against Islam. But, we know that columnists and reviewers speak for themselves, and newspapers often don’t restrain them when they push the margins of decency...
Perhaps the authors might actually read one of Hoxby’s papers and learn something about the use of logic, in lieu of emotion, in presenting arguments...