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NOTEBOOK: Al-Qaeda outsources terror to Turkey; Newt's hand in the Medicare bill; will San Francisco go Green?; Coulter, Rummy and dancing Saddam dolls...
...providing Medicare payments for those over 65 and Medicaid assistance for the poor. There are still gaps in the coverage: the 20% or so of the bill that the typical Medicare patient must pay can be a severe burden; the long illness that exhausts inadequate insurance benefits is a terror to the middle class ... Unquestionably, this system has saved innumerable lives and improved the nation's health by encouraging people to seek medical care that they could not otherwise afford. But the system could hardly have been better designed to fan inflation than if that had been its purpose...
...headache for Taiwan's biggest ally: the U.S., which is obligated under its Taiwan Relations Act to come to the island's defense in case of an attack. But Washington is preoccupied with Iraq and Afghanistan; it also needs Beijing's cooperation on everything from prosecuting the war on terror to containing North Korea to cutting its trade surplus with...
...tongue-tied president is out-stepping the Democrats in the language wars, and it’s true that an insensitivity to consequences can often characterize his language. Our European allies cringed when Bush used the term “crusade” to describe his War on Terror, apparently unaware that invoking centuries of bloody Christian holy war against Muslims in the Middle East might undercut his insistence that his war was indeed not against Islam. (Europeans should be used to cringing by now; the last time we bombed Iraq it was called “Operation Desert Fox?...
...rhetorical points against terrorists, but the actual term is meaningless and even counterproductive. What bomber is not homicidal? The term “suicide bomber” exists to distinguish between terrorists who kill themselves and those who don’t. The distinction is important in dealing with terror, since the former are more powerful and more motivated, but it didn’t matter to Fox News, who dutifully and instantly adopted the term “homicide bomber,” now applying it every time tragedy strikes Israeli civilians and leaving viewers clueless as to when...