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...even be true that other drugs in plentiful supply work just as well for anthrax as Cipro does. If so, there's no reason to hoard Cipro but also no reason people shouldn't hoard Cipro if they want to. Whether valid or not, the government's own concern about a Cipro shortage is why the government wants to persuade us there's no cause for concern about a Cipro shortage. That, plus the worry that germs develop resistance to antibiotics that are used promiscuously...
...yours a little bit safer than everyone else. Yet even in the midst of a nationwide flag-waving orgy, this is an argument our government and political leaders don't make. They apparently believe that even dubious appeals to self-interest are more likely to work than valid appeals to concern for the common good...
Cooley has a valid point. And when asked on the response people have toward landsharks, Desai was frank. “Landsharks are simply misunderstood...
Peace activists may piss you off, Lord knows they bother me. But to spend our time belittling the antics of sanctimonious, wannabe hippies misses the valid arguments for peace: that the US must seek to shore up international support to help arrest and prosecute current terrorists. That in the attempt to bring these terrorists to justice we must avoid the foreign policy mistakes that helped give rise to violent extremists like bin Laden. And finally, that the country must try avoid the deaths of innocent civilians, who will be mourned by friends and family as bitterly as those who died...
...Across the now mostly metaphorical Fleet Street (few London papers still have offices there), he got some solid Tory backing. The Telegraph's Boris Johnson agrees that the Labor lefties and many of his conservative colleagues have plenty of valid concerns, but that toppling the Taliban and eliminating Bin Laden make waging the war an essential responsibility." There is always a period of Fleet Street nervousness, during any war. It happened during the Gulf. It happened during the Falklands. So come on, you Peggy Panics. Remember Margaret Thatcher on that very conflict: 'The possibility of failure does not exist...