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Al-Qaeda's Poppy Profits Tim McGirk's article "Terrorism's Harvest" [Aug. 9] described how heroin trafficking is now "a principal source of funding for the Taliban and al-Qaeda terrorists." It's quite ironic that just a few months before we "liberated" Afghanistan by bombing it and sending...
The reels on the gas pumps spin so fast these days that it's become almost impossible to stop them on an even dollar figure. I hate it when a mosquito buzzes my ear. I flick it away and then look back at the pump--which I was monitoring fiercely...
Sadly, however, civility is a virtue with vices. An established code of behavior to which all are expected to adhere doesn't come out of the clear blue sky. It depends on a sense of social hierarchy that dignifies a particular group or institution-the church, the nobility, whatever-with...
For the present, Keegan offers friendly advice to the CIA. It is a bad mistake, he says, for a spy organization serving a democracy to be in the business of both intelligence gathering and subversion. Subversion, Keegan argues, "is a weak way of fighting." And it has an untidy way...
If bin Laden is captured alive and his picture is shown on front pages and TV screens across the world in a demeaning manner, as was the case with his recently arrested senior comrade Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, expect to see in the Muslim world a general sense of exasperated resignation...