Word: terrorized
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Hafez may have schooled his son well in Mideast topology, but it seems he skipped a few pointers for handling the U.S. Many considered Hafez a master of the double game, a man who could have American diplomats queuing up for talks even as Syria sponsored global acts of terror. Bashar began to irritate Washington within months of taking office--in early 2001 he reneged on a quiet understanding to shut down a pipeline pumping illicit oil out of Iraq...
...would most likely have been devoted to rooting out the operations of Theodore Kaczynski ’62, also known as the Unabomber. Over the course of 17 years—from his first attack in 1978 to his last in 1995—Kaczynski carried out a systematic terror campaign, sending letter bombs to prominent members of higher education institutions that resulted in three deaths and 23 injuries...
...reasonable to expect some restrictions of civil liberties during a time of war, and some of the PATRIOT Act’s provisions are necessary to help law enforcement officials deal with changing technology. But America will never be able to declare victory in the war on terror; this conflict, unlike a conventional war, will never end in unconditional surrender. Any sacrifices we make will be permanent. As if to drive that point home, the government has recently been pushing to overturn the original four-year “sunset” limits on the PATRIOT Act?...
...people seem to have noticed the government’s power grab; the international aspects of the war on terror and the invasion of Iraq have monopolized America’s attention...
...against terror is different. It will be, to use a phrase coined by John F. Kennedy ’40 in his 1960 Inaugural Address, “a long twilight struggle, year in and year out.” It is a war that will be impossible to conclusively win. But it is a war that it will be eminently possible to lose. And if America permanently forfeits its commitment to civil liberties, it will have lost, regardless of the fate of Osama bin Laden...