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...terrifying. Second, we must remember that we cannot always wait for the smoking gun. Instead, we should remember that you never hear the bullet that kills you. If we reserve action until we are absolutely sure that the fellow pointing the gun at us is about to pull the trigger, it may be too late. That was the lesson of Sept...
...omen The U.S. military warns that small asteroids crashing into Earth about 30 times a year could trigger nuclear war; so far only the U.S. has sensors that can distinguish the explosive impacts from hostile attack
...campaign to draw attention to his cause, a motivated Mawdsley makes life hell for prison officials, demanding books, exercise time, a radio, everything but HBO. True, his demands are his chief means of challenging the corrupt regime, but there aren't many works of prison literature that can trigger a bit of sympathy for the police state...
...regime-change" is not widely shared, and language as intemperate as Fleischer's - and more sober comments by other Administration officials suggesting that action may be necessary no matter what the outcome of the inspection process - is likely to reinforce suspicion that the U.S. is simply trying to trigger an internationally-sanctioned invasion. But the position of the Russians and others that no new resolutions are necessary is likely to reinforce U.S. and British impatience with the UN. President Bush on Tuesday again urged the UN to "show its backbone," and vowed to work to "put a little calcium there...
...some point the Iraqis would come up with a half answer," says a senior State Department official. But it mucked up the White House's carefully calibrated strategy to ram through a beefed-up new U.N. resolution demanding that Saddam accept unfettered inspections anytime, anywhere, and setting a quick trigger for military action in the event that Iraq 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...