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...climate change had assumed. Most of all, the tone of the CRU e-mails suggests that climate scientists are mired in groupthink, utterly resistant to skeptical viewpoints and willing to use pressure to silence dissenters of the global-warming mainstream. In other words, the e-mails showed what Republican Representative Jim Sensenbrenner called "scientific fascism," which he argues is "at worst ... junk science" and "part of an international scientific fraud." (Facebook users, comment on this story below...
...such, critics on the right, primarily Republican leaders, looking to take a jab at the president, who conflate the potential drawdown date with a total withdrawal of an American commitment to Afghanistan, seem to be deliberately misleading the public and are hardly being constructive...
...Qaeda, Hizballah and Hamas are nationalist movements with deep roots in their particular societies. That means that unlike al-Qaeda, they can't simply be destroyed. Rather, the goal must be to transform them from military organizations into purely political and social ones, as happened with the Irish Republican Army. The U.S. might still dislike their Islamist, anti-Western, anti-Israeli agenda, but as Obama said in an interview with the Arab-owned news channel al-Arabiya during his first week in office, he would be "very clear in distinguishing between organizations ... that espouse violence, espouse terror...
...regions of the world that we don’t understand as well as we might as posing major threats. It’s a product of our leadership in World War II and the Cold War. And it has carried over as a big part of the Republican Party’s rhetoric, which tends to view the enemy as a one-size-fits-all existential threat...
...York Times reported yesterday that Utah Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch is also planning to introduce an equally stringent amendment to the Senate bill...