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...nation stood behind Bush with almost unprecedentedly unified support for a “war against terrorism.” Of course, there were, and are, a vocal minority of those who oppose such a campaign on the grounds that it targets civilians and constitutes a form of collective punishment??but those voices seem to constitute a small percentage of Americans’ opinions...
...good—you need to know that the world is watching. We see the photographs of Palestinian children playing in the rubble of their bull-dozed homes, IDF soldiers pointing their machine guns at elderly Palestinian men and tanks rolling through Palestinian neighborhoods. Fear tactics and mass punishment??illegal under international law—are no more justifiable in the West Bank than they were in the townships of Johannesburg...
...support capital punishment??but only in theory. When someone chooses to take another’s life, he commits an act so contrary to fundamental moral principles that execution should be justified. Contrary to the liberals of the Left, I believe the state has the power—and the right—to take human life; after all, it quite frequently exerts this power through its military forces. Like the Slobodan Milosevics and Saddam Husseins of the world, the Timothy McVeighs and Susan Smiths should pay the ultimate price for their crimes...