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...Levittown, N.Y. In his memoir Tails from the Bark Side, he recounts how his beloved mutt Irish served as an emotional buffer from the abuse he says he suffered at the hands of his father, a construction worker: "During a time when my life was full of stress, terror, and unpredictable cruelty, he [Irish] offered a harbor of love and sanity that I drew on daily." Originally planning to be a veterinarian, he dropped out of Iowa State University's pre-vet program when he could no longer afford it and opened his training business in 1977. His informal work...
...choice has been framed in a way that narrows the numbers of people that can support us. Right after 9/11, President Bush was saying we were against the terrorists. And so people who were definitely opposed to seeing airplanes fly into the Twin Towers, who were against acts of terror, could be on our side. But when the choice was enlarged or changed by the President saying, you need to be with us on Iraq or what we're doing on Iran or in other parts of world, it became much harder for other people to be with...
Meet Jim Oberwetter, U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, which is America’s largest oil supplier and a key strategic partner in the war on terror. Mr. Oberwetter had never set foot in the desert kingdom before he became Ambassador two years ago. His resume boasts a stint as chairman of the American Petroleum Institute, which lobbies on behalf of over 400 oil and gas interests in Washington D.C., and work lobbying for the Dallas Chamber of Commerce, but no knowledge of Arabic. More importantly perhaps, his former employer, Hunt Consolidated Oil, gave $250,000 to Bush?...
...This would be almost comical, if it were not for the dire effects that bad ambassadors can have. America’s war on terror depends on winning the hearts and minds of the world’s people as much as it depends on any military campaign. Unfortunately, a recent survey from the Pew Research Center suggests that America is losing the public relations war. The report stated that 70% of global respondents agreed it was “good for the US to feel vulnerable after the attacks [of September 11],” 80% of Middle-Eastern...
...finding it harder to maintain a following precisely in those places where local Islamist insurgencies should provide the most fertile ground. A videotape purporting to show Zarqawi musing on the state of the Iraqi insurgency surfaced on a jihadist web site on Tuesday, a day after a terror attack on the Egyptian resort town of Dahab killed at least 23 people and two days after the release of an Osama bin Laden audiotape urging attacks on Western civilians in defense of the Palestinians, among others. All three events show the growing distance between the "global jihadists" of al-Qaeda...