Word: terrorismã
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...philosophical aversion to nation-building, which he announced during the presidential debate of October 11, 2000, has so far prevented him from committing the necessary amounts of troops or reconstruction money to the war-torn nation. November’s $87 billion appropriation to “fight terrorism?? in Afghanistan and Iraq earmarked a mere $1.2 billion for Afghan reconstruction (with another $10 billion for continued military operations there), and the measly deployment of American peacekeepers in Afghanistan means that the country is being run mostly by local warlords and drug-runners...
...this there was Laci Peterson, before her it was J. Lo and Ben... according to the Lycos internet service, it took only a year for the top five words searched on the Net to revert from “Nostradamus, World Trade Center, Osama bin Laden, New York City, Terrorism?? to “KaZaA, Dragonball, Tattoos, West Nile Virus, Britney Spears.” The Michael Jackson business is a sign, not a shift, of cultural trends. Still, with two years and a bit behind us, the return of popular news culture to its previous depths should...
...soft form of collective punishment.” In The Jersualem Post, Dershowitz has urged the “automatic destruction” of an entire Palestinian village after each Palestinian terrorist attack. Isn’t this lending “intellectual support” to terrorism??and shouldn’t his home be subject to the “soft form of collective punishment?...
...Stern—who served as the inspiration for the character played by Nicole Kidman in the 1997 film The Peacemaker about nuclear-weapons terrorism??has penned a book that attempts to answer fears surrounding the current debate about American national security. Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill is based on years of conversations with extremists and her research into international terrorism and reaches out to a popular audience...
...Standing before a painting of Daniel Webster’s famous speech in defense of the power of federal laws, Attorney General John Ashcroft told an audience of Massachusetts law enforcement agents in historic Fanueil Hall yesterday that America is “winning the war on terrorism?? thanks to the tools granted by the USA Patriot...