Word: terrorisms
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...Satterfield added that he believed the string of suicide bombings that killed dozens of pilgrims represented "a stepped-up effort by the al-Qaeda terror campaign, by elements of the Sunni insurgency, in trying to thwart the Baghdad security plan by inflaming sectarian violence, by provoking the death squads back into action...
...could be wrong—perhaps the Spartans did love freedom. Just as much as we do. After all, isn’t ours a time of war on Persian terror, of diabolic foreigners threatening our precious freedoms? Next time you read or watch history, be ready to be told more than about yesterday. Today always seeps through...
...spending because they thrilled to his vision of an America that rolled back Soviet power. In 2004, conservatives overlooked George W. Bush's prescription drug benefit and his liberal stance on immigration, and turned out for him in record numbers, because they believed so deeply in his war on terror. Now, by contrast, right-wingers carp endlessly about his domestic spending, even though his budgets have been leaner in his second term than in his first, because his foreign policy has become such a depressing affair...
...elections as a contrast to his present policy. And he weighs the detriment—fiscal, moral, and military—the United States has faced since the institution of the Bush Doctrine. But the book is much more than one long polemic. Shapiro argues that terrorism can be contained despite the contrast between these small cells and the gigantic Soviet Union for which the policy of containment was developed. Though he acknowledges that it is impossible to know what would have happened, he makes quite a strong case for how Iraq and terror cells can be contained...
...moment the White House was assiduously touting the imminence of a massive terror threat in Iraq, they also appear to have mobilized much of its senior staff in a campaign essentially to tar Joe Wilson as a wimp. And in that is the sobering message beyond the Libby trial's legal minutiae: The same wise men who were assessing a phantom threat to America's domestic peace were the same people taking minute note of their own PR. Perhaps the larger moral here is that had Washington torn itself away from the petty melodramas such as who dissed whom...