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...Giuliani and the Republicans keep trying to convince us that only they are tough enough to fight terrorists and keep us safe. To believe that, you have to forget their track record. I seem to recall that on 9/11 the terrorists boarded planes in a state that had a Republican Governor and did their worst damage in a city that had a Republican mayor and a state that had a Republican Governor - all while a Republican was in the White House. Ron Spiegel, Philadelphia...
...outrageous for Elizabeth Edwards to attack Hillary Clinton's electability. After all, the Clintons have a long track record of winning tough elections by comfortable margins, while John Edwards certainly can't make the same boast...
...believe that my optimism back when I showed those very fine Iraqi forces to Senator Boxer was justified," he said. The good work was undone, though, in 2006, when Shi'ite militias "hijacked" whole units of the Iraqi military. But, he insisted, we are back on the right track now. Petraeus may well be right-or maybe not. The nature of military leadership is congenital optimism; officers are trained to complete the mission, to refuse to countenance the possibility of failure. That focus is essential when you go to war, but it lacks perspective. That's why civilian leaders...
...homefront remains on alert, but in a leisurely, one-eye-open kind of way. Police at the Pentagon scrape the air for signs of radiation or chemical attack, track the wind direction to guide escaping employees. But 9/11 Commission chairs Tom Kean and Lee Hamilton used the anniversary to remind people that security remains a shield with holes. Most air cargo is still not screened, the high-tech bomb detectors are indefinitely delayed, and Congress demands tighter standards for drivers' licenses but won't fund them. The broadcast industry has until 2009 to turn over the spectrum that rescuers need...
...State Department has been cryptic in its assessment of Iran's role in Nicaragua. "Iran's track record does not suggest it wishes to play a constructive role in the hemisphere," David Foley, a State Department spokesman on Middle East issues, said in an e-mail, then added in a telephone interview, "We're not adjusting our policy in Nicaragua depending on what Ahmadinejad is up to." The Bush Administration has not focused on Nicaragua much at all, despite the election of the leftist Ortega. Foley says merely that Washington "has a positive agenda in the hemisphere...