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...Imagine the scenario that we get elected. The administration would be forced to respond,” Pengelly says...
Speculation about Murphy’s future increased last Thursday when The Boston Globe reported that he had already visited Annapolis twice for interviews, and that he would be offered the position during a third meeting last weekend. That scenario did not materialize...
...what scenario could a National Guardsman with an automatic rifle better handle a terrorist threat than law enforcement or well-trained civilian security? Neither the Taliban nor anyone else is going to storm into an airport and open fire—at least, unless they have a penchant for airports, a public shooting there is no more likely than anywhere else. And with or without military personnel around every corner, even the most dim-witted terrorist would never try to hijack a plane by rushing through metal detectors, ready for a footrace or a firefight...
...military certainly has ugly memories of Somalia. But if it did choose to strike at targets there, the Pentagon would be unlikely to repeat the mistakes of the 1993 Mogadishu fiasco. A more likely scenario would be the Afghanistan model of air power used in combination with local proxy forces - the Ethiopians come to mind, although there would be plenty of local warlords open to turning against any Al Qaeda elements for a small...
...hawks have a hard time selling their scenario, and not only because the Baghdad regime is a considerably more formidable foe than the Taliban. Even Britain, which has been Washington's most steadfast anti-Iraq ally, has firmly opposed extending the anti-terror campaign to Iraq. The Brits fear that bombing Iraq in the absence of evidence linking Baghdad directly with the September 11 attacks could produce precisely the sort of Islam vs. the West conflict the Bush administration has been so careful to avoid - and bin Laden has been so eager to provoke...