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Munich begins and ends with, and frequently reverts to, an account of an especially heinous historical act: the capture and eventual murder of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympic Games by a Palestinian terrorist group calling itself Black September. Because television was omnipresent at the Games, the entire world was witness to that awful event. Indeed, it's not too much to say that most of us for the first time perceived the face of modern terrorism in the images that ABC and the other networks broadcast of those frightful 24 hours. Or, in fact, did not fully perceive...
Didn't our President vow to free the Iraqi people from the kind of terrorism practiced under Saddam Hussein? Yet our own government condones terrorist tactics, torture and murder when they suit its purpose. I pray we never again allow a President to hold office who considers the physical, spiritual, emotional and psychological destruction of another person to be just and right...
...road from Baghdad to the Jordanian border on April 11, 2003, could bog the special forces in an ugly row. In August, international law expert Marc Henzelin filed a $1.5-million claim for compensation with the U.S. military for the alleged torture of two Iranian nationals, the suspected murder of a third Iranian and the theft of $360,000 by U.S. forces in Iraq...
...from society always found someone to blame for their predicament. And so these fanatics brood on injustice and eventually come up with a seemingly justifiable religious reason to destroy others who, by the sweat of their brow, are managing to provide for their families. Most of us don't murder innocent humans because we are frustrated by our situation in life, and we reject the excuses of those who do. Susan Star Durban, South Africa Admirable, Not Heroic? re Time's list of "European Heroes 2005" [Oct. 10]: I dispute your selection of Frenchwoman Maud Fontenoy, who rowed across...
...deciding everything for the country. Fellow Benjamin Ginsberg, who was a counsel for both Bush-Cheney campaigns, said he found it “troubling” that politicians are forced to resort to campaign tactics to draw the public’s attention away from murder trials and other sensational news. Fellow Martin Frost, a former U.S. Representative, D-Texas, noted the current political polarization. He said that Reagan was the last president truly to seek bipartisan support, because his party’s majority in Congress was so slim that cooperation was necessary to get anything done...