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...battle line is anywhere - essentially, that there are no rules - which the various insurgencies have updated by killing many more of its countrymen than they have our soldiers. But you never know who?s going to detonate himself or herself in your vicinity, so it?s simple prudence to shoot first and check for I.D. later...
...more medieval superstition he carries in his baggage (along with a live chicken). And that would absolve him more than the Americans he encounters. It's funny when he enters a gun store and asks the gent behind the counter, "What gun would you get to shoot and Jew?" It's creepy when the manager recommends a certain model, without missing a beat, and as if he'd had to answer that question a dozen times before...
...only to be stopped by a gunman hired by Bush's old strings-puller, and the new president, Dick Cheney. But a peacenik or Islamist or disgruntled office-seeker pulling the trigger? Not if he considers the consequences. Those around Richard Nixon used to joke that no one would shoot him, because then Spiro Agnew would become President. Similarly, anyone who harbored murderous impulses toward Bush might think for a minute and, to put in in Maureen Dowd terms, let W. live, in order to keep Darth Vader from taking over...
...highly restrictive regarding the new movie's use of the TV show's original theme and famous introduction ("Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive...") "They looked at the opening title of the TV series down to the second," says Coulter. "We had to re-shoot the entire title sequence." As a result, Hollywoodland's version of the TV show's intro is a bit truncated, but only die-hard geeks will likely know the difference. "We re-did the voice-over, re-scored the music, and had to lose a refrain," says Coulter, a bit wistfully...
...American power to control. By focusing its efforts on rogue states, the U.S. ignored the fact that the terrorists' most important area of activity was not the Middle East but stable, prosperous, democratic Western Europe. And while a war against a rogue regime was as asymmetric as a turkey shoot, the same could not be said of a war against diffuse terrorist networks. It became fashionable in the years after 9/11 to speak of "Islamo-fascism." In reality, the enemy was more like communism in its heyday: international in its scope, revolutionary in its ambitions and adept at recruiting covert...