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Before the Gulf War, Iraq was given to understand that any use of biological or chemical weapons against American forces would be met with weapons that would wipe Iraq off the face of the earth. We will never know if President Bush would have carried out the threat. But the threat was credible enough to stay Saddam's hand...
...healthy to argue, vent your anger, the experts say, but there is so much of it, especially in the city with a gash in the ground where our skyscrapers used to be. In lower Manhattan they vacuum and wipe, go to work, go to a funeral, then come home, vacuum and wipe, scream at the community-board meeting about the filth in the air--How much asbestos is there anyway?--and the absence of school buses. After the first few weeks of quiet, the city's crisis hotlines are blistered with calls and there are no beds available...
...three weeks, the country has grown much smaller. Dozens of residents of this quiet leafy town have called Mayor Joe Matthews to ask about the security of the water supply. They worry about the row of manufacturing plants along the river, churning out chemicals, plastics and power. "Well, you wipe out the polymer factories and you're going to wipe out a lot of the country's production," muses Beth Burlingame, an employee of Marietta's Selby General Hospital. "All of a sudden you think, yeah, it could happen in Marietta," says Police Chief Brett McKitrick. "You hit those plants...
...most sacred precepts. But during the 20th century, the militant form of piety often known as fundamentalism erupted in every major religion as a rebellion against modernity. Every fundamentalist movement I have studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced that liberal, secular society is determined to wipe out religion. Fighting, as they imagine, a battle for survival, fundamentalists often feel justified in ignoring the more compassionate principles of their faith. But in amplifying the more aggressive passages that exist in all our scriptures, they distort the tradition...
...simply punishing those responsible for the attacks would send a strong, necessary message. There is no question that what those terrorists did was completely inexcusable under any circumstances. There is a dire need to wipe out terrorism and to restore our faith in our world and our country...