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...size and power of the U.S. make some Australians on the Labor side wary of getting too close. "Following a U.S. President who's got the wrong strategy in the war against terror is very, very dangerous for our country," said Latham before the Iraq war. Sending troops to Iraq "has made Australia into a greater terrorist target," says Rudd. Downer disagrees. "We cannot expect to have a meaningful alliance with the U.S. if we are not prepared to stand shoulder to shoulder with it in the war on terror," he says, and the project to build democracy in Iraq...
...Organizations like Jemaah Islamiah have very close links with terrorist organizations beyond our region. To think you can simply focus on the region and get away with ignoring all the other challenges the war on terror brings us is mistaken." Ending Taliban rule in Afghanistan reduced the flow of al-Qaeda-trained terrorists into Southeast Asia, Downer points out. On the other hand, Labor's Christmas troop pullout from Iraq "would give an enormous propaganda victory to the terrorists, not just in Iraq but elsewhere, including Southeast Asia." Abu Baker Bashir, the alleged leader of J.I., said last month that...
...getting pissed, and the administration is usually quick to take action. Only four months ago the President refused to tap into the nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserves, arguing that doing so “would put America in a dangerous position in the war on terror.” But Bush changed his mind after Hurricane Ivan disrupted oil imports. It was probably the right policy move on the merits, but let’s not fool ourselves about the administration’s motives—all that “war on terror” rhetoric...
...crack of dawn in order to keep Harvard’s ideological stance against discrimination intact, as if Harvard were somehow able to dictate terms to the federal government. I would like to have the section of my taxes devoted to the Farm Bill and the War on Terror remitted to me, but sadly we can’t pick and choose. Harvard has to accept that if it is in the business of training and educating no small number of politicians and future leaders, not having ROTC available on campus is an act of negligence. So long as there...
...genocide assertion. Survivors say that government helicopters targeted civilians inside the villages while Janjaweed rounded up cattle. Khartoum works "hand in glove" with the militias, says Stephanie Frease, special project manager with the coalition. "At this point, all the government has to do is fly an airplane to instill terror, to get people to move...