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Obama, President Barack • effectiveness of speech to Congress by, especially the last part...
...East Africa in 1998 and those that followed in London, Madrid, Bali and other places - were tactical successes in that they managed to kill hundreds of innocent people, grab the world's headlines and briefly dominate the nightmares of Western policymakers. But the strategy those attacks were a part of has proved to be fundamentally flawed. Terrorism departs from the rules of war by deliberately targeting the innocent, but it shares the basic motivational force of conventional warfare - "the pursuit of politics by other means," as Clausewitz wrote. (See pictures of the challenge of memorializing 9/11...
...purpose of the 9/11 attacks was not simply to kill Americans. Rather, the attacks formed part of bin Laden's strategy to launch a global Islamist revolution aimed at ending U.S. influence in Muslim countries, overthrowing regimes there allied with Washington and putting al-Qaeda at the head of a global Islamist insurgency whose objective was to restore the caliphate that had once ruled territory stretching from Moorish Spain through much of Asia. (See pictures of Osama bin Laden...
...outreach is in the eye of the beholder, and Democrats like Senator Chuck Schumer challenged the other team to step up: "The ball is now clearly in the court of the Republican Party. Are they going to continue to just say no? Or will they meet us part of the way? That's the question...
...tepid performance stems in part from the quality of companies coming to market. Several listings have come from the cash-strapped real estate and infrastructure sectors, and were perceived as overpriced. Says a Mumbai investment banker: "The market has run ahead of itself, and fundamentals aren't supporting present valuations...