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...Federal Civil Defense Administration released an educational film called “Duck and Cover.” It featured an animated turtle named Bert, who demonstrated how children should protect themselves in the face of a nuclear attack. The thesis of the movie was something like a “nuclear attack might happen at any moment, so we should all be prepared.” At the same time, videos were made by various military agencies showing the structural impact of nuclear bomb blasts; these movies suggest that ducking and covering would not, in fact, have been...
...Sadr immediately demanded restraint, and sent representatives to huddle with leaders of the Association of Muslim Scholars, a Sunni clerical body with ties to the insurgency. That move, and talk of joint action to protect holy places, underlined Sadr's ability to reach out to at least some Sunnis-not least because of nationalist credentials built by his confrontations with U.S. forces, and also by his firm rejection of the SCIRI proposal for a southern Shi'ite mini-state...
Still, nearly five years after 9/11, it's becoming apparent even to some members of the Administration that private industry can't be relied on to protect the nation's infrastructure on its own. "Expecting a trade association to tell a business it needs to spend more money on security isn't sufficient," says Sal DePasquale, a Georgia chemical-security expert, who helped draft the industry's current voluntary plan. Congress is looking at making chemical-plant security mandatory, and DHS officials say they're ready to order beefed-up security for chemical facilities as well. But that process could...
...houses of Congress tear apart the U.S. Because Oliver North took the Fifth, he is being smeared by the news media and by Congress as almost a traitor. Has it ever occurred to anyone that the opposite may be true? I submit that North is taking the blame to protect not himself but his country. Try giving him the benefit of the doubt until we know better, and let's have some discretion from the news media...
...singularly at the altar of the market. It is a modernizing city-state that embraces the West.Moreover, the UAE is an important ally in counterterrorist activities in the Middle East. It was the first state in the region to sign the U.S. Container Security Initiative, a project designed to protect these same ports. The UAE has also signed onto agreements that ban the shipping of nuclear material and that work to cut off funding to terrorist groups. The United States should not risk alienating the UAE through xenophobic passions and politics. It is not beyond the realm of possibility that...