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...Bush Administration is optimistic about cranking up the flow quickly. Vice President Cheney recently said, "We ought to be able to get their production back up in order of 2.5 [to] 3 million bbl. a day within, hopefully, by the end of the year." For now, at least, U.S. policymakers envision Iraq as a swing producer, one that can provide just enough oil to even out world supply and demand and prop up prices. (If there were a truly free market in oil, crude would sell for $12 a bbl. or less instead of $26, and gasoline would...
What’s really grabbed my attention, though, has been the fallout of this incident—and especially the reaction to it here in Cambridge. We have been quite long on criticism and quite short on the self-reflection and accounting that such incidents ought to provoke...
Your columnist Michael Elliott asked what the Bush Administration should do now and suggested that Iran and Syria ought to feel nervous because of their terrorist connections [GLOBAL AGENDA, April 21]. I say that any country that has harbored a terrorist, plans terrorist attacks or helps others carry out such attacks against the U.S. is who's next. The U.S. is not at war with only a few people or even a few nations. We are at war with the entire concept of international terrorism. MICHAEL BUSSIO Scotts Valley, Calif...
...ought to look in the mirror, stick out our chests, suck in our bellies, and say, 'Damn, we're Americans,' and smile." RETIRED LIEUT. GENERAL JAY GARNER, head of the reconstruction effort in Iraq...
Biological research that cannot be maliciously appropriated by terrorist groups ought to remain available in peer review journals, he says...