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...perhaps on our friends and allies. For all those reasons, a new kind of deterrence is needed. We can no longer rely entirely on "our reactive posture," Bush says. "We must be prepared to stop rogue states and their terrorist clients before they are able to threaten or use weapons of mass destruction against the United States and our allies and friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Does Might Make It Right? | 9/30/2002 | See Source »

...failed to comply. Instead, Saddam's offer revived uncertainty. France and Russia, two pivotal Security Council members that had begun to shift toward the U.S. hard line, now hailed a triumph for diplomacy and questioned the need to place new demands on Baghdad. Says a French diplomat: "You cannot threaten someone before you have started...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inspections | 9/30/2002 | See Source »

...these Los Angeles students. Granted, the school board’s concern about the health of students is necessary. The proponents of this ban seek to battle the ever-increasing obesity epidemic, which involves many of our nation’s children, and is estimated to effect or threaten some 40 percent of Los Angeles’ children. However this move to ban soda is, on its own, too simple—the best remedy to help these students must involve a drastic change in diet education and exercise instruction. In the school forum, students, especially those affected by obesity...

Author: By Jasmine J. Mahmoud, | Title: Pop pop, fizz fizz | 9/26/2002 | See Source »

...neither stupid nor irrational. He does not want to see his country obliterated by a retaliatory attack, and there is no reason to believe that he will support an attack on the U.S. unless backed into a corner. The proponents of an invasion, more than anyone else, threaten to do just that...

Author: By Blake Jennelle, | Title: Apocalypse Now | 9/25/2002 | See Source »

...calls it, we can predict nothing but that he will disobey. He is a “man who would use weapons of mass destruction at the drop of a hat, a man who would be willing to team up with terrorist organizations with weapons of mass destruction to threaten America and our allies,” Bush told us on Monday. And if he obtains the proper “fissile material,” Bush cautioned the UN on Sept. 12, Saddam may have the potential to do all that within a year...

Author: By Blake Jennelle, | Title: Apocalypse Now | 9/25/2002 | See Source »

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