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Hurricane Katrina was a catastrophe caused by the U.S. government's refusal to ensure domestic tranquillity. To do that requires Big Government to maintain coherent transportation and communications systems and coordinate land management that allows the ecosystem to serve as a buffer against natural calamity. Big Government must organize access to medical care for all individuals. But Big Government has been under constant attack for decades, seen as the cause of Americans' woes rather than as part of the solution. Big Government is not the enemy, Bad Government is - inept, shortsighted and self-serving. Francis Mickus Paris...
That's a recurring theme. U.S. officials say Taliban units are led by a few wizened commanders, such as Hannan, who operate in the mountains they know well enough to walk blindfolded. The commanders, the U.S. says, maintain a nucleus of 10 veteran fighters and bombmaking experts plus dozens of fresh recruits, usually teenagers from local villages and radical madrasahs, or seminaries, in nearby Pakistan. The commanders' effectiveness determines how much money and how many guns and new jihadis are doled out to them by the Taliban's secretive, 10-man military council, whose members move back and forth across...
...looters, murderers and other degenerates who fired on rescue workers in New Orleans should have been shot at by the police to maintain civilized order. Taking food and water from a grocery store in order to survive is understandable, but stealing luxury items just because there is an opportunity to do so is criminal. I hope that those caught on camera will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Arline McFarlane West Vancouver, Canada...
...Beijing spelled out its strict Internet philosophy: State Council Order No. 292 barred nine types of content from websites, online bulletin boards and chat rooms, including anything that might "harm the dignity and interests of the state" or "disturb social order." The government has also made it difficult to maintain anonymity. The majority of Chinese go online at cybercaf?s, and in order to rent computer time users must register with their national ID numbers. Cybercaf? employees watch what their customers are viewing, keep logs of sites visited and share that information with local Internet police departments, which have been...
Many of the challenges they spoke of were unique to Asian Americans, such as parental pressure and the attempt to maintain their original identity while being an American, but they also spoke of issues that youth everywhere confront, including love, identity, and change...