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...expansion of the fledgling U.S. missile shield that U.S. officials maintain is designed only to protect parts of Europe as well as the United States. "No one's name [in the Russian government] is attached to it," Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman told TIME shortly after the Russians released their saber-rattling statement. "It's being reported as a foreign ministry statement - and it's got strange wording in it like 'We would be forced to react with military resources' or 'technical means' - what does that mean...
...What grated most was the incapacity of your contributors to conduct a vivisection of what ails the troubled region and suggest solutions that would be restorative and reconciliatory as well as rehabilitative. To have Arabs and Jews in a permanent state of unrest benefits only the war merchants. Saber Ahmed Jazbhay, Durban...
...like Michael Elliott to conduct a vivisection of what ails the troubled region and suggest solutions that would be restorative and reconciliatory as well as rehabilitative. To have two of the most gifted peoples, namely Arabs and Jews, in a permanent state of unrest benefits only the war merchants. Saber Ahmed Jazbhay, DURBAN...
...women’s epeeist in addition to a women’s saberist, the team will look to repeat its national championship glory of 2006 with a set of fencers that will likely have just one weak link—the men’s saber squad. “We’re going to have a comparable team [to the 2006 squad] with the exception being men’s saber, and that, in terms of the national view of things, may hurt us...that’ll be the only stumbling block,” Brand...
...Because the last thing Iran's leaders want is an American President who doesn't play the role of the Great Satan. They need the mirage of an implacable, saber-rattling foe to distract their population from the utter incompetence of their government. An American President who said, "Let's talk," would lead an awful lot of Iranians to ask their leaders, "Why aren't you talking?" That was certainly the case after the reformer Mohammed Khatami won a surprise landslide election to become the Iranian President in 1997. The Clinton Administration began making quiet diplomatic overtures toward Khatami...