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...There is a caveat, though: Democracy may lead to a chaos of false hopes, but what's the alternative? In the past, regional stability, of a sort, was ensured by U.S. support for extravagantly corrupt and brutal regimes. The high-speed, information-age propaganda and savagery of Osama bin Laden has changed all that, as has the careful provision of social services by groups like Hizballah and Hamas. If the status quo is no longer tenable, as was the case in the Palestinian territories, it's far better for Hamas to come to power via the ballot box than...
...might expect from a man who has spent the past four years on the run. If it didn't belong to one of the world's most feared men, it would hardly scare a child. Having disappeared from view, sheltering in the mountains of Afghanistan and Pakistan, Osama bin Laden may have lost the ability to send a chill down the world's spine. Governments don't shut down airports or send security forces into red alert. Even when he makes the direst threats, we no longer feel compelled to slow down, much less stop, the course of our daily...
...OSAMA BIN LADEN Saudi Breaking his silence, the al-Qaeda leader last week offered a "truce...
...other piece, by Smith Professor of Law Martha L. Minow and Amos N. Guiora of Case Western University, was written as a reaction to a failed attempt by the U.S. military to kill Ayman al-Zawahri, Osama bin Laden’s top deputy, in Pakistan earlier this month...
...call me selfish, but I can?t help but be pleased when Osama?s spotlight-grabbing tirades, while hopefully mostly hot air, gives the rest of the country a smack on the fanny. I don?t expect the folks in Peoria to be as nervous as I am. But it doesn?t hurt for the rest of the county to occasionally be reminded that, a free Iraq notwithstanding, al Qaeda is still furiously plotting ways to bring the war back home...