Word: ruthless
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...there is much that we know about the global terrorist network that goes by the name of al-Qaeda-but an awful lot that is still hunch. Still, an international investigation by Time into al-Qaeda's structure reveals that it is more global in its range, and more ruthless in its ideology, than all but its most dedicated students could have ever imagined...
...leaders protecting bin Laden. The first wave of lightning special-ops strikes was, as much as anything else, a psychological weapon designed to boost American spirits and faith in the government, silence suspicions that the public might go wobbly after seeing American blood shed, and send a message of ruthless resolve that can be heard in Afghanistan's deepest caves. In that sense, it also marked a beginning. So be prepared: after two weeks of heavy, mostly accurate yet increasingly irrelevant American air strikes, the war's pace and brutality will ratchet up fast--and so will the body count...
...zeal with which America is rushing to abandon its democratic values. The FBI, we learn, will have expanded wiretapping and surveillance powers. The U.S. has spent much of the past century struggling against governments that monitored the actions of their citizens, restricted their movements and engaged in ruthless policies beyond the reach of morals, ethics or the knowledge and consent of their people. So why surrender now? Law, liberty, justice, freedom and fair play are not luxuries that we must regretfully abandon when the American way of life is threatened. They are the American way of life. R. ANDREW SEWELL...
Leaming depicts John Kennedy as a man who made a bumpy political journey from ruthless opportunist (after the model of his father) to a man who had "found himself morally at last" under the influence of British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. When Kennedy's callow self-assurance first foundered after the Bay of Pigs debacle in 1961, Leaming writes, Jackie stepped in, using her social skills and talent for imagemaking to wrap his presidency in an aura of maturity and dignity that it did not yet possess...
...boss of ISI, Lieut. General Ehsan ul- Haq, is regarded as moderate, professional and without political ambition. But some wonder if he is ruthless enough to overhaul an agency still filled with Islamic sympathizers. ISI, says a diplomat, "has to be cut down to size...