Word: weaknessness
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There are parallels between fundamentalist Christianity and radical Islam. Both see no valid interpretation of Scripture other than the literal one. Both use propaganda and fear to win over skeptical moderates. And both see compromise as a sign of weakness. The rise of radical Islam along with unbending, uncompromising tactics...
A group of disillusioned former Democrats (many of them former Marxists), mostly from New York and northern California, spent these “wilderness” years in think tanks like the Heritage Foundation and the American Enterprise Institute. Together, they crafted what would become neo-conservatism—an...
Predicting just how strong a hurricane will grow, however, remains more art than science, which is why my seatmate, NOAA scientist Joe Cione, has been seeding the Gulf with devices known as AXBTs (airborne expendable bathythermo- graphs), which measure the temperature of the water column. The chief weakness of hurricane...
And that won't be easy: I've never seen George Bush lose a debate. He is a brilliant minimalist. Kerry by contrast is all oratorical flab--although he did begin to show some signs of life last week in a solid speech to the National Guard convention, in which...
The horrifying carnage that ended the hostage crisis at a school in Beslan, in southern Russia, was a gruesome reminder of the abject failure of President Vladimir Putin's own "war on terror." At least 320 people are reported to have been killed Friday after Russian troops stormed a school...